• Tanzanie: l’accaparement des terres recule
    • JDLE
    • 10 January 2013

    Restreindre la taille des terres agricoles qui peuvent être cédées. C’est ce que vient de décider le gouvernement tanzanien, prenant le contre-pied de sa politique agricole, résolument orientée depuis quelques années vers les multinationales des biocarburants.

  • Land Grabbing: il nuovo colonialismo?
    • Cronache Internazionali
    • 10 January 2013

    Si tratta dell’appropriazione o acquisto, da parte di governi o imprese multi-nazionali, di vasti terreni locali mediante operazioni di leasing finanziario.

  • Land grabbing, investment principles and plural legal orders of land use
    • CPL
    • 07 January 2013

    A rights-based vision as brought forward by the FAO guidelines still bears the risk of reinforcing unequal local power structures. Instead, more long-term strategies for the protection of customary rights are required. Thus, a moratorium on ‘land grabs’ would be most appropriate.

  • Guidelines for land allocation to investors
    • Mpakasi
    • 03 January 2013

    In 2012, PM Mizengo Pinda announced that from January 2013, Tanzania will start restricting the size of land that single large-scale foreign and local investors can “lease” for agricultural use. And Tanzania Investment Centre announced that guidelines that will make the Tanzania Land Bank functional will be ready early 2013.

  • Tanzanie : Contenir "la course à l’accaparement des terres"
    • IPS
    • 03 January 2013

    A partir de janvier 2013, la Tanzanie débutera la restriction de la taille des terres qui peuvent être "cédées" uniquement aux grands investisseurs étrangers et locaux à des fins agricoles.

  • Tanzania takes major step towards curbing land 'grabs'
    • The Guardian
    • 28 December 2012

    Tanzania has set a ceiling for investors wanting to buy its agricultural land, a move welcomed by land rights campaigners

  • ACT refutes US website claims on land grabbing
    • Northern Star
    • 27 December 2012

    “Land grabbing in Tanzania doesn't exist,” insists the executive director of the Tanzania Horticultural Association Ms Jacquiline Mkindi

  • Curbing Tanzania's 'Land Grabbing Race'
    • Tanzania Daily News
    • 20 December 2012

    From next month (January 2013), Tanzania will start restricting the size of land that single large-scale foreign and local investors can "lease" for agricultural use.

  • African Agricultural Growth Corridors: Who benefits, who loses?
    • EcoNexus
    • 11 December 2012

    Governments, IFIs and corporations are collaborating in major new projects to reorder land and water use and create industrial infrastructure over millions of ha in Africa to ensure sustained supplies of commodities and profits for markets.

  • Investors to acquire limited land
    • Daily News
    • 28 November 2012

    The Tanzanian government has agreed to put a ceiling with regard to what size of land a single large scale investor can be allocated for agriculture.

  • $210m investment to support rice, barley growth
    • Daily Monitor
    • 23 November 2012

    Part of the $210 million that the Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund and the Carlyle Group will invest in the Export Trading Group will be invested in Mbeya rice farms In Tanzania, where the group would cultivate rice and barley.

  • Land motion sparks hot debate in House
    • Guardian
    • 09 November 2012

    A heated debate ensued yesterday in Tanzania's Parliament after Kawe lawmaker Halima Mdee moved a private motion calling on the House to adopt a resolution pressing the government to suspend the allocation of huge chunks of land for investment to foreigners.

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