Tanzania

Duxton Asset Management and its investment in Tanzanian rice farming
- 31 December 2013
Case study of Duxton Asset Management's planned investment in Kapunga Rice Farm in Tanzania
The challenges of boosting Tanzania's rice production
- BBC
- 23 December 2013
As investment deals between big business and the government are made across Tanzania, those working on behalf of small-scale farmers argue that more needs to be done to ensure their needs are not overlooked.
Biofuels investment and community land tenure in Tanzania
- Eldis
- 19 December 2013
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.
Tanzania: Japan's Nitori to invest Sh900 billion in cotton farming
- Tanzania Daily News
- 06 December 2013
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.
Tanzania: Govt pledges to continue supporting Rubada
- Tanzania Daily News
- 03 December 2013
The government pledges to continue supporting Rufiji Basin Development Authority (RUBADA) in its endeavour to encourage large scale plantations in the country
The gender and equity implications of land-related investments on land access and labour and income-generating opportunities
- FAO
- 16 November 2013
Three FAO reports published in 2013 looking at Lao PDR, Zambia and Ghana
Chiza: TZ ripe for progress in agriculture
- The Citizen
- 23 October 2013
Tanzania’s Minister for Agriculture and Food Security was in London where he spoke with investors about investing in Tanzania's agriculture sector.
Tanzania: Dar, London for agriculture investment talks
- Tanzania Daily News
- 21 October 2013
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
Cevital à la conquête de l’Afrique
- Depêche de Kabylie
- 12 October 2013
«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».
Investors must surrender Idle farmland-President Jakaya Kikwete
- Tanzania Daily News
- 09 October 2013
Tanzania's President says hoarding large chunks of land without developing them for years retards national development and impoverishes subsistence farmers.
Tanzania: State has not grabbed land from anybody
- Tanzania Daily News
- 26 September 2013
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.
Africa needs ‘ethical land policies’
- The Citizen
- 13 September 2013
African countries should have ethical economic land policies to save the continent from land conflicts, an international land conference was told on Wednesday.