Tanzania

While expanding private investment in agriculture is a core ambition of the G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, experiences of prior investments raise questions about possible negative impacts.

The Japan investor has secured 40,000 hectares of land for commercial cotton farming in Handeni District where it will open a cotton farm and a processing plant.

The government pledges to continue supporting Rufiji Basin Development Authority (RUBADA) in its endeavour to encourage large scale plantations in the country

Three FAO reports published in 2013 looking at Lao PDR, Zambia and Ghana

Tanzania’s Minister for Agriculture and Food Security was in London where he spoke with investors about investing in Tanzania's agriculture sector.

UK-Tanzania Agriculture Investment Roundtable begins in London today, in association with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Agriculture was identified as a priority area

«Nous avons des projets en Afrique, notamment au Soudan, en Ethiopie, au Kenya, en Tanzanie et au Mozambique. Notre idée est d’aller dans ces pays qui nous offrent des terres agricoles et beaucoup d’eau».

Tanzania's President says hoarding large chunks of land without developing them for years retards national development and impoverishes subsistence farmers.

President Jakaya Kikwete refutes claims that his government is a notorious grabber of land from poor subsistence farmers in rural areas in an address at Guelph University, Canada.

African countries should have ethical economic land policies to save the continent from land conflicts, an international land conference was told on Wednesday.

Retired President Benjamin Mkapa attributes the increase in legal tussles over land to excessive red tape and to government's failure to formalise ownership.

Given the determination to identify large parcels for so called nucleus farms I am worried that village tenure security is of second priority – it should be the other way around, says researcher Mikael Bergius.