"Oman’s food-security programmes and water technology can link with East Africa’s arable land and examples are Kenya’s tea and coffee farms and Tanzania’s horticulture," the Chairman of East African Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture says
Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa yesterday launched the Building Better Tomorrow (BBT) Programme’s Project I, which focuses on large-scale farming, with a funding boost of 129.71 million US dollars from the African Development Bank.
L'organisation faîtière des agences catholiques de développement en Europe et en Amérique du Nord appelle à un arrêt immédiat des projets de crédits carbone sur les sols mis en œuvre parmi les Maasaï du nord de la Tanzanie, après des processus jugés « douteux ».
Study finds that two large-scale carbon projects on the grazing lands of the Maasai in Tanzania have committed serious abuses and make traditional grazing practices impossible.
Norway pledges US$15mn towards the implementation of the Flagship 7 (Agricultural Masters Plan), which focuses on creating an enabling environment for replicating the SAGCOT model in three additional Agricultural Growth Corridors, namely Mtwara, Central and Northern Corridors.
Indian edible oil manufacturer BN Group announced a $1 billion investment to expand its operations across Africa establish three manufacturing facilities with a combined production capacity of 2,000 tonnes and invest in palm plantations.
The company intends to cultivate bamboo in phases, beginning with 8,500 hectares, and is applying for carbon credits with Gold Standard.
In Tanzania, Chinese seed company Longping is setting its sights on expanding its soybean operations to the Ndogowe area of Dodoma, as well as developing a massive 10,000-hectare farm in Mkulazi, Morogoro.
The five villages signed formal agreements with Soils for the Future (Tanzania) Ltd to execute the project on 71,656.30 hectares, which is the total amount of communal grazing areas allocated by the residents of all five villages.
The new Agricultural Growth Corridors of Tanzania (AGCOT) will follow a similar approach to the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT).
Iran's seventh development plan calls for extra-territorial cultivation of food crops this year on 400,000 ha in Iraq, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Africa and Latin America.
This LDPI Working Paper Series includes work in progress presented at the 2024 Global Land Grabbing Conference in Bogotá, addressing urgent challenges related to land, water, and natural resource grabbing.
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