Some famers from Mbeya Region have lost an appeal case over compensation and damages against a large rice farming company owned by Export Trading Group, which was accused of maliciously damaging their rice.
The Silverlands I portfolio, the continent’s largest agricultural investment fund, includes primary production and beef and poultry assets across South Africa, Namibia, eSwatini, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique.
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
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07 April 2021
Article assesses the local impacts of farmland investments in the Kagera and Pwani regions of Tanzania, and particularly the Kagera Sugar operations in Misennyi district.
- World Development
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26 Mar 2021
Norfund reports losses of over $23 million on its investments in the UK company Agrica and its large-scale rice plantation in the Kilombero Valley of Tanzania.
- Bistandsaktuelt
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08 January 2021
El continente africano se ha convertido en nuevo y valioso escenario para multinacionales que despliegan grandes monocultivos, sin respetar a menudo ni la biodiversidad ni los derechos humanos
- El País
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01 September 2020
Kilombero Plantations Limited in Tanzania joins a long list of failed big agriculture projects in Africa in recent years, including Agrisol and Sun Biofuels in Tanzania; Karuturi in Kenya and Ethiopia; Nile Trading in South Sudan; Senhuile in Senegal, and Bukanga Lonzo in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- The Citizen
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05 November 2019
An 80-member business delegation from China's Shandong Province will arrive in Tanzania to look on how to scale up agriculture export and import trading in the area of agriculture equipment and products.They will exchange views on motor vehicle- new and used, aquatic products, marine culture industry, fishery, as well as livestock industry.
- All Africa
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02 September 2019
La firme britannique d’investissement AgDevCo annonce la réalisation d’un engagement au sein d’Africado, une entreprise tanzanienne spécialisée dans la culture et l’exportation d’avocats.
- Agence Ecofin
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16 July 2019
Tanzanian authorities said on Friday they have set aside 2,000 hectares of land for investors wishing to invest in cashew nuts plantations and processing industries to add value to the crop.
Follow-up verification by the Tanzanian government finds villagers still being denied lands lands of the Kapunga rice farm that were supposed to be surrendered by its owner, the Export Trading Group.
A totalitarian approach to conservation that led to increased inequity, undermining of democracy, and violent evictions
- REDD Monitor
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06 April 2019
Kilombero Plantation Ltd, the Tanzanian subsidiary of Guernsey-registered Agrica Ltd. and “best in class” player in the field of socially responsible ag investments in Africa, is up for sale after defaulting on loans from several financial institutions.
- Oakland Institute
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27 Mar 2019