Tanzania

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.
Clinton's seed initiative, a shot in the arm for Tanzania
- Tanzania Daily News
- 07 August 2013
Mr Clinton said that some farmers had told him sadly that a few foreign investors came to their land claiming to have large agriculture investment capacities but their projects collapsed after a short period.
Tanzania: Smallholder farmers lose in most govt programmes
- The Citizen
- 07 August 2013
"For instance, SAGCOT targets to help 100,000 farmers in all regions it operates. Nothing is said about 38 million farmers in Tanzania!" says the head of the Network of Farmers’ Groups in Tanzania (Mviwata)
Mixed fortunes as ActionAid tackles land-grabbing in Tanzania
- Inidigo Trust
- 11 July 2013
Reflections on a project to map instances of rural land-grabbing in Tanzania.
Tanzania's agriculture revolution: land grabs or a welcome business boom?
- The Guardian
- 20 June 2013
Yamba has been warned by her local MP not to accept any offer by an investor for her "worthless" roadside scrubland. When the new road from Iringa to Dodoma is finished, it could be worth a fortune, he says.
African agricultural growth corridors and the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: Who benefits, who loses?
- Econexus
- 19 June 2013
Governments, international finance institutions and global corporations are collaborating in major new projects in Africa to reorder land and water use and create industrial infrastructure over millions of hectares.
Corridors pour la croissance agricole en Afrique et la Nouvelle Alliance pour la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition: Qui en bénéficie, qui perd?
- Land Portal
- 18 June 2013
Ce rapport d'Econexus examine comment les gouvernements, les institutions financières internationales et les sociétés mondiales collaborent dans de nouveaux projets en Afrique pour réorganiser terres et des eaux et de créer une infrastructure industrielle sur des millions d’hectares
El desembarco
- La Jornada
- 19 May 2013
África se está convirtiendo en un goloso pastel para las grandes empresas planetarias en su incesante y despiadada búsqueda del lucro, ahora que otros continentes están agotados.
UAE moots the idea of agricultural free zones in Africa
- Gulf News
- 02 May 2013
Hesham Al Shirawi, Chairman of Economic Zones World, mooted the idea of establishing free zones for agri-business in Africa during the Africa Global Business Forum 2013. The establishment of corn farms is also a lucrative business proposition, he added.
Come grab our land
- IPS
- 25 April 2013
Government structures across West and Central Africa are now “in a bind and divided, with some ministries choosing to hand over natural resources to agribusinesses and mining, and others seeking to protect the rights of their citizens,” according to Andy White, coordinator of RRI