Tanzania

Africa’s real land grab
- Economist
- 21 July 2016
Never mind foreign interlopers. African urbanites are scooping up more land
Water scarcity, public protest slow foreign farmland purchases
- Circle of Blue
- 24 June 2016
New GRAIN study finds changed conditions in international “land grabs.”
World Bank allows Tanzania to sidestep rule protecting indigenous groups
- ICIJ
- 21 June 2016
The World Bank’s board has granted a massive agribusiness project in East Africa a waiver that exempts it from following the bank’s Indigenous Peoples Policy—sparking fears that the development lender is making an end run to resurrect a policy that it abandoned in public.
Evicted tribes say they're left with nowhere to go
- ICIJ
- 20 June 2016
The World Bank’s board has granted an East African agribusiness project called SAGCOT a waiver that exempts it from following the bank’s Indigenous Peoples Policy — sparking fears among human rights advocates that the development lender is setting a precedent that weakens protections for indigenous peoples.
Farming for India Inc abroad largely on paper
- Business Standard
- 18 June 2016
India’s plan to lease farm land in Mozambique, Tanzania and Malawi to grow pulses for domestic consumers is not the first such project
Tanzania: Project axed to save wildlife
- Citizen
- 24 May 2016
The Government has decided to shelf the Bagamoyo EcoEnergy sugar plantation project in order to safeguard Wami River from which the project would draw its water.
Tanzania: Investors lose seven farms in Morogoro
- Daly News
- 27 April 2016
Several other title deeds for farms with total 549,000 hectares in Morogoro region have been forwarded to the Ministry of Lands and Human Settlement Developments for revocation.
New project to link farmers to agribusiness in Tanzania
- World Bank
- 10 Mar 2016
The World Bank's $70 million in new financing will be used to link smallholder farmers to agribusinesses in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT).
Ugandan farmers call on United Nations to sever ties with Bidco Africa
- BFA
- 22 February 2016
The Bugala Farmers Association has called on the UNDP to sever its ties with Bidco Africa, a Kenya-based edible oil producer accused of land-grabbing, human rights violations and environmental disasters in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania
Iran seeking to lease land in East Africa for food froduction: Envoy
- Tasnim
- 07 February 2016
The Iranian ambassador to Kenya said the country plans to lease land in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to grow rice, corn and wheat
Bangladesh starts contract farming in Africa
- Financial Express
- 02 February 2016
Foreign Affairs Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Tuesday told Parliament that Bangladesh had started ‘contract farming’ in the African countries with appointment of 11 Bangladeshi farmers in Zambia.
Protecting community lands & resources in Africa: Grassroots advocates’ strategies & lessons
- Namati
- 20 January 2016
Book provides a variety of ingenious, creative, and practical strategies for proactively confronting the forces that undermine community land and natural resource tenure security in Africa.