Tanzania

The gender and equity implications of land-related investments on land access and labour and income-generating opportunities
- FAO
- 16 November 2013
Three FAO reports published in 2013 looking at Lao PDR, Zambia and Ghana
Chiza: TZ ripe for progress in agriculture
- The Citizen
- 23 October 2013
Tanzania’s Minister for Agriculture and Food Security was in London where he spoke with investors about investing in Tanzania's agriculture sector.
Tanzania: Dar, London for agriculture investment talks
- Tanzania Daily News
- 21 October 2013
UK-Tanzania Agriculture Investment Roundtable begins in London today, in association with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Agriculture was identified as a priority area
Cevital à la conquête de l’Afrique
- Depêche de Kabylie
- 12 October 2013
«Nous avons des projets en Afrique, notamment au Soudan, en Ethiopie, au Kenya, en Tanzanie et au Mozambique. Notre idée est d’aller dans ces pays qui nous offrent des terres agricoles et beaucoup d’eau».
Investors must surrender Idle farmland-President Jakaya Kikwete
- Tanzania Daily News
- 09 October 2013
Tanzania's President says hoarding large chunks of land without developing them for years retards national development and impoverishes subsistence farmers.
Tanzania: State has not grabbed land from anybody
- Tanzania Daily News
- 26 September 2013
President Jakaya Kikwete refutes claims that his government is a notorious grabber of land from poor subsistence farmers in rural areas in an address at Guelph University, Canada.
Africa needs ‘ethical land policies’
- The Citizen
- 13 September 2013
African countries should have ethical economic land policies to save the continent from land conflicts, an international land conference was told on Wednesday.
Mkapa's guide to fixing tedious land spats
- The Citizen
- 11 September 2013
Retired President Benjamin Mkapa attributes the increase in legal tussles over land to excessive red tape and to government's failure to formalise ownership.
Identification of land for SAGCOT Investments
- mikaelbergius
- 10 September 2013
Given the determination to identify large parcels for so called nucleus farms I am worried that village tenure security is of second priority – it should be the other way around, says researcher Mikael Bergius.
Fighting to keep their land from investors
- Tanzania Daily News
- 09 September 2013
The Hadzabe people of Tanzania are acquiring basic skills on how to survive in a globalised world, where investment in land translates into money.
Pinda scoffs at perpetrators of land grabbing allegations
- The Citizen
- 24 August 2013
Tanzania's Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda said allegations that a large portion of arable land had been taken over by foreigners at the expense of local people were not true.
Africa has spoken! First ever Pan African Land Grab Hearing
- Oxfam
- 20 August 2013
Hearing gives voice to the stories of communities affected by land grabs in Africa and brings the land grab issue to policy makers and influential people and groups.