Tanzania

Dubai firm invests $500m in Tanzania
- Business Week
- 07 November 2011
City Energy & Infrastructure will be involved in the development of a sugar plantation and sugar processing plant in an area of 100,000 hectares.
New land scramble worries small farmers
- The Citizen
- 03 November 2011
Tanzanian peasaants complain that the government has been allocating huge tracts of land to certain investors in the district, while refusing to allocate the same pieces of land to local groups that had applied for them.
Are foreign investors colonising Africa?
- Al Jazeera
- 25 October 2011
Indian author and media commentator Anand Giridharadas joins this Al Jazeera programme along with Oakland Institute’s Executive Director, Anuradha Mittal, and Christine L. Adamow, Managing Director of Africa BioFuel, a US company invested in farmland in Kenya and Tanzania.
Obtala resources agriculture JV in Tanzania gets key govt approval
- Proactive Investors
- 21 October 2011
Obtala's agriculture business Montara Continental intends to plant groundnuts, sunflower, sesame, soya and seed maize on 20,000 hectares.
Act now: Stop imminent land grab that threatens more than 162,000 people in Tanzania
- Oakland Institute
- 17 October 2011
This is a call to action to stop imminent land grabs in Tanzania
Tanzania: Don't fear investors, residents urged
- The Guardian
- 17 October 2011
Mwanza regional commissioner Evarist Ndikilo has advised Kilombero district residents in Morogoro region not to fear investors as they boost development in the district.
Structural change in commodity markets: private financial sector investment in agriculture
- OECD
- 17 October 2011
Report by HighQuest Partners for the OECD, October 2011, features 6 case studies of land grabbers: Agrica, CalyxAgro, Cazanae, Jantzen, NFD Agro and Quifel
Agriculture : l'achat de terres en Afrique, un business sous influences
- Jeune Afrique
- 07 October 2011
Milliardaires américains ou saoudiens, aristocrates portugais et britanniques, ex-ambassadeurs occidentaux… Derrière certains contrats signés en Afrique se cachent des personnalités du monde des affaires et, parfois, de la politique. Enquête sur ces nouveaux spéculateurs.
Looking for farmland in Tanzania? Try the Prisons Service
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
- 04 October 2011
It has been reported that the Tanzania Investment Centre has partnered with the country's prison service to market the latter’s 130,000 hectares of land to investors.
Sun Biofuels jatropha project in Kisarawe suspended
- Tanzania Daily News
- 03 October 2011
The EU lured many multinational energy companies such as SBF to invest in renewable energies in developing countries such Tanzania where almost all projects are on the verge of collapse or shut down.
Tanzania: Why land grabbing Is detrimental to women
- Tanzania Daily News
- 25 September 2011
Land rights activists have been expressing their fears and concerns about the malicious trend of selling or leasing large farmland to foreign multinational companies and governments.
¿Cómo afectará a las mujeres el acaparamiento de tierras?
- Tanzania Daily News
- 25 September 2011
El pasado día 13, 14 y 15 de septiembre se celebró en Dar es Salam, el décimo Festival de Género. El acaparamiento de tierras fue uno de los temas clave por la grave amenaza que puede suponer sobre el trabajo que se lleva desarrollando en relación al empoderamiento de las mujeres en Tanzania.