The Bugala Farmers Association has called on the UNDP to sever its ties with Bidco Africa, a Kenya-based edible oil producer accused of land-grabbing, human rights violations and environmental disasters in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania
The Iranian ambassador to Kenya said the country plans to lease land in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to grow rice, corn and wheat
Foreign Affairs Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Tuesday told Parliament that Bangladesh had started ‘contract farming’ in the African countries with appointment of 11 Bangladeshi farmers in Zambia.
- Financial Express
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02 February 2016
Book provides a variety of ingenious, creative, and practical strategies for proactively confronting the forces that undermine community land and natural resource tenure security in Africa.
Villagers appeal to government for intervention in their new bid to repossess wheat farms leased to private investors.
- The Citizen
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27 December 2015
The formalities of a joint-venture will be concluded “shortly” that will give the AIM-listed agri-specialist access to 1,265 hectares that sits between the Wami River and the main Dodoma to Dar es Salaam highway.
- Proactive Investors
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25 November 2015
The EcoEnergy project was announced in 2011, with those to be displaced told they could expect compensation within 18 months. It has stalled, hamstrung by red tape and legal delays.
- Africa Report
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25 November 2015
Class dynamics behind a land grab ahead of its time - Mbarali, Tanzania
- African Political Economy
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19 November 2015
A stalled scheme to make Tanzania east Africa’s premier sugar producer has polarised opinion about using large-scale agriculture to achieve food security
The government has allocated 60,000 ha of land for investment in large-scale commercial farming for sugar and rice in the Mkulazi area, 60 kilometres from the Dar es Salaam - Morogoro highway.
- East African
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07 October 2015
Le candidat du parti au pouvoir en Tanzanie à l'élection présidentielle du 25 octobre, John Magufuli, a promis dimanche de redistribuer les terres non utilisées
- Jeune Afrique
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07 September 2015
New report published by Misereor is based upon first-hand interviews with farmers in four villages of Tanzania’s Southern Highlands utilizing a right to food framework.