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The Citizen25 Aug 10As large-scale investors' interest in acquiring vast swathes of land for commercial agriculture in Africa intensifies, farmers believe the time is ripe for the government to press investors to allocate shares to villagers as a corporate social responsibility.
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Reuters24 Aug 10African governments need to raise their level of accountability and ensure that they improve and protect their own food security through quid pro quo side-agreements negotiated when they lease or sell their arable land to foreign interests, says Keith Mullin of Thompson Reuters
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Tanzania Daily News16 Aug 10A delegation of Korea experts is expected to arrive in the country to sign a $50 million pact covering an initial 15,000 ha in the Rufiji River Basin.
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Institutional Investor04 Jun 10 SilverStreet is scouting for commercial farms in five countries — Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
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Pambazuka03 Jun 10With the emerging land investments a new set of challenges emerges for the woman farmer.
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Pambazuka03 Jun 10En privant effectivement les paysans locaux de leurs terres et en perpétuant souvent « des méthodes agricoles nuisibles à l’environnement », cette évolution menace d’avoir des conséquences très négatives pour les petits exploitants, et en particulier les femmes
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Institutional Investor28 May 10Vaughan-Smith and his team of seven professionals are scouting for commercial farms in five countries — Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia — where conditions are deemed to be the most favorable.
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Tanzania Daily News06 May 10Tanzania's President says his government has decided to work with the private sector in large scale farming and the Tazara corridor is the starting point.
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Tanzania Daily News22 Mar 10Small scale farming which is prevalent in rural Tanzania has no future but instead the country needs large scale commercial farmers including those from abroad to inject capital and technology, argues Professor.
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Tanzania Daily News01 Feb 10Citadel Capital says that their investments will mainly focus on the agriculture sector, with Tanzania's 'Kilimo Kwanza' initiative taking the centre stage.
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This Day25 Jan 10A UAE company is seeking a 98-year lease on vast tracts of farmland in Tanzania to grow rice in order to secure food supplies for the Gulf countries.
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Reuters21 Jan 10The fund is in the process of leasing 50,000 hectares of land in Tanzania which will be complete by the end of this year and will mainly be for rice production.
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The Citizen19 Jan 10The Tanzania government has signed a five-year livestock and fishing agreement with China that would see Chinese firms invest in aquaculture and livestock projects.
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NHK08 Jan 10Documentary for Japan Broadcasting Corporation, focusing on Tanzania and Ethiopia
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NHK08 Jan 10Programme aired on NHK World presenting a documentary by Kohei Tsuji filmed in Ethiopia and Tanzania - in Japanese only - 35 minutes
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![I grandi capitalisti alla conquista delle terre coltivabili dei paesi poveri]( "I grandi capitalisti alla conquista delle terre coltivabili dei paesi poveri")
ComeDonChisciotte07 Jan 10Si impadroniscono delle risorse naturali sempre più scarse attraverso la guerra delle armi o il danaro. La scomparsa delle popolazioni in via di sviluppo a loro non importa.
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Korea Times04 Dec 09That Korea is no longer "importing" this food that is being grown overseas implies that this land is effectively Korean. This amounts to agricultural imperialism.
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The Citizen27 Nov 09South Korea, through the Korean Economic Development Fund, has extended a $50 million (about Sh65 billion) loan to the Rufiji Basin Development Authority (Rubada). About 100,000 hectares of land have been set aside for modern rice farming under the project.
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Kaos en la Red10 Nov 09Los capitalistas conquistan los recursos de la naturaleza mundial mediante la guerra o la compra.
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The Citizen29 Sep 09An Afro-Arab agriculture conference on farm investment, which was to take place in Zanzibar, has been cancelled due to the Tanzanian governmnt's 11th hour refusal to host it.