Class dynamics behind a land grab ahead of its time - Mbarali, Tanzania
- African Political Economy
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19 November 2015
A stalled scheme to make Tanzania east Africa’s premier sugar producer has polarised opinion about using large-scale agriculture to achieve food security
The government has allocated 60,000 ha of land for investment in large-scale commercial farming for sugar and rice in the Mkulazi area, 60 kilometres from the Dar es Salaam - Morogoro highway.
- East African
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07 October 2015
Le candidat du parti au pouvoir en Tanzanie à l'élection présidentielle du 25 octobre, John Magufuli, a promis dimanche de redistribuer les terres non utilisées
- Jeune Afrique
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07 September 2015
New report published by Misereor is based upon first-hand interviews with farmers in four villages of Tanzania’s Southern Highlands utilizing a right to food framework.
Le groupe mauricien poursuit ainsi son implantation dans l'est de l'Afrique après avoir fait l'acquisition d'une sucrerie en Tanzanie en 2000.
- Jeune Afrique
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18 August 2015
Yara and Unilever are partnering on a smallholder contract growing programme, connected to Unilever's 3,253 hectare tea plantation in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor (SAGCOT).
Un projet de palmier à huile dans le district de Kisaware connaît actuellement un regain d’intérêt de la part des officiels après le silence qui avait prévalu à son endroit durant les deux dernières années.
- Agence Ecofin
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28 July 2015
South African sugar, agrarian change and outgrowers adverse incorporation in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
Kenya-based private equity house Fanisi Capital said on Thursday it had bought a stake in a Tanzanian agro-processing company for $6 million, expanding its footprint in the region.
Oakland Institute responds to reactions to its report by the owners of the industrial rice plantation in Mngeta.
- Oakland Institue
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02 July 2015
Norfund, the UK aid department, and Capricorn are funding the British company Agrica’s industrial rice plantation in Tanzania, which is destroying the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
- Oakland Institue
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18 June 2015