Sun Biofuels jatropha project in Kisarawe suspended
    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 Daily News
    • 03 October 2011
    Tanzania: Why land grabbing Is detrimental to women
    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.
    • Tanzania Daily News
    • 25 September 2011
    ¿Cómo afectará a las mujeres el acaparamiento de tierras?
    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.
    • Tanzania Daily News
    • 25 September 2011
    Karuturi Global Ltd contemplating $2.5 billion investment in Tanzania's agriculture
    India-based company Karuturi Global Limited is planning to make an investment of $2.5 billion in farmland in Tanzania in the upcoming years.
    • IndiaCompanyNews
    • 24 September 2011
    Foreign land acquisitions in Africa: Implications for trade, investment and development policies
    This 2011 trapca Trade Conference will be held in Arusha, Tanzania, on 24-25 November 2011
    • TRAPCA
    • 14 September 2011
    Coast Region now advised to accept investors in agriculture
    Tanzania's Coast Region residents have been advised to accept and work with investors in agriculture.
    • The Guardian
    • 09 September 2011
    China tills vigorously at African agro opportunities
    Speaking at the annual African Cup of Investment Management, Alex Pestana said China had invested in arable land in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique.
    • Business Standard
    • 09 September 2011
    US company looking to farm rice in Nigeria and Tanzania left trail of devastation in Kenya
    The people living on the lands now being targeted by US-owned Dominion Farms can learn a lot from the film Good Fortune, which provides a behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of a local community in Kenya to defend their lands from this company.
    • GRAIN
    • 07 September 2011
    Afrique de l'Est : terres en vue
    En proposant d’injecter 2,5 milliards de dollars (1,7 milliard d’euros) dans le secteur agricole du continent noir, les géants indiens de l’agroalimentaire s’apprêtent à battre le record des deals agricoles signés en Afrique au cours des cinquante dernières années.
    • Jeune Afrique
    • 06 September 2011
    AgriSol & Serengeti Advisers: Land Grabbers ?
    The debate on large scale land acquisition in Tanzania is far from over as there is a changing dynamic now as local investors team up in joint venture with foreign investors and we are made to believe that since we have one of our own in the investment venture our interests are taken care of.
    • Udadisi
    • 06 September 2011
    Foreign direct investment: A disaster
    The Tanzania government has been advised to draft laws to curb acquisition by foreigners of extensive tracts of the country’s fertile agricultural land as foreign direct investment would be a disaster in years to come.
    • Tanzania Media Forum
    • 02 September 2011
    Menos tierra, más hambre
    En los últimos años, la oleada creciente de privatizaciones de tierras en África (su compra por parte de gobiernos extranjeros, multinacionales agroalimentarias o fondos de inversión) ha hecho aún más vulnerable su precario sistema agrícola y alimentario.
    • Blog de Esther Vivas
    • 23 August 2011

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