Tanzania

Tanzanian villagers pay for biofuel investment disaster
- Redeye
- 16 October 2012
The financial collapse of a project by UK-based Sun Biofuels shows how the development dream can quickly turn into a nightmare for local people.
Land-grabbing linked with hunger
- IRIN
- 12 October 2012
Researchers find that bulk of deals to lease out land are struck in 32 of the countries ranked “alarming” or “serious” on the Global Hunger Index score.
Cumprindo promessas para com os pequenos agricultores africanos
- IPS
- 28 September 2012
A Olam International, uma transnacional Indiana do agronegócio, e está a desenvolver um sistema gigantesco de fomento agrícola nos 850 mil hectares de terra que lhe foram concedidos por 20 anos, num local não muito longe do porto da Beira, em Moçambique.
Delivering promises to Africa’s smallholder farmers
- IPS
- 28 September 2012
Olam International, an India-based multinational agribusiness company, is developing an outgrower scheme on a giant 20-year, 850,000 hectare concession it has secured not far from the port of Beira, Mozambique.
Le retour de la menace de l’accaparement des terres
- Slow Food
- 07 September 2012
Du Sénégal à la Tanzanie, le phénomène du land-grabbing (ou accaparement des terres) est en train de se développer de manière très rapide, quelques exemples reviennent sur le devant de la scène.
Ethics complaint against AgriSol's Rastetter dismissed: Public scrutiny however unravels Rastetter's business dealings
- Oakland Institute
- 24 August 2012
The ethics complaint was filed by the Des Moines-based citizen group, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, for misusing his membership on the Iowa Board of Regents that oversees Iowa's public universities to advance an "African land grab".
Brazilian companies eye agricultural sector
- Daily News
- 21 August 2012
The companies, which produce mainly soya, sugarcane, corn and cotton, were informed about the opportunities for investment in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT).
Land - a key constitutional agenda
- Tanzania Daily News
- 09 August 2012
If there is an issue that is the pulse of popular discontent in Tanzania presently, then, it is land.
The scramble for African land (1)
- Leadership
- 09 August 2012
"Today, all patriotic Africans are weeping when they see how African governments are giving out African lands, dispossessing the African people of their ancestral land, for practically next to nothing, in the name of attracting foreign investors!", writes Abba Mahmood
Protesters disrupt Board of Regents meeting, want Rastetter removed
- The Gazette
- 03 August 2012
Group says regent abused position in pursuing relationship between Iowa State University and Ratsetter's agribusiness corporation, which is developing a farming operation in Tanzania.
Bangladesh to lease Sudanese farmland
- Daily Star
- 03 August 2012
Bangladesh yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Sudan to take a 10-year lease on Sudanese farmland to grow crops aimed at ensuring food security of both the countries.
Land grabbing in a post investment period and popular reaction in the Rufiji River Basin.
- Hakiardhi
- 02 August 2012
Report just released by Tanzanian NGO Haki Ardhi looks at recent experiences with land grabs in the fertile Rufiji Basin.