Tanzania: Curbing Tanzania's 'Land Grabbing Race'

Daily News, 20 December 2012

From next month (January 2013), Tanzania will start restricting the size of land that single large-scale foreign and local investors can "lease" for agricultural use. Read more »

Tanzania's Hadza homeland: Deep green woodland. (file photo).

Africa: Investors Must Stop Land Grabbing, Say Civil Society Groups

Friends of the Earth, 30 November 2012

Major farmland investors such as banks and pension funds must stop facilitating land grabs, say civil society groups on the eve of a global farmland investment conference in… Read more »
Tanzania: Land Grabbing Fears Allayed

Daily News, 30 November 2012

THE government has assured Tanzanians that land that belongs to villagers will never be taken from them and offered to investors. Read more »
Africa: Involving Local Farmers Is Key to Success of Foreign Investment

FAO, 13 November 2012

International investments that give local farmers an active role and leave them in control of their land have the most positive effects on local economies and social development,… Read more »
Tanzania: Plenty of Land Available for Investment, Says TIC

Daily News, 12 November 2012

TANZANIA has enough land for investment and housing purposes, Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) has said, allaying fears that the country's land was up for grabs by multinational… Read more »
Africa: African Farmers Should Reap Benefits of Land Acquisition

African Development Bank (AfDB), 2 November 2012

African governments should use the proceeds from land leased to foreign investors to subsidize the cost to local farmers of modernizing their farming methods, or to build… Read more »

InFocus

Tanzanian Villagers Cry Foul Over Bio Fuel Land Deal

Locals in Kilwa and Rufiji districts have requested the government to be involved in the bio-fuel project implementation after huge chucks of land was lost to investors. Read more »
- Tanzania: Villagers Cry Foul On Bio-Fuel Investments
- Tanzania: Time Ripe for Alternative Energy Solutions
African Land Grabs in the Spotlight

The World Bank has rejected a call to install a moratorium on large scale agricultural land acquisitions following the release of a major report by Oxfam that outlined the ... Read more »
- Africa: World Bank Refuses Call to Halt Land Deals
- Africa: Land Sold Off in Last Decade Could Grow Enough Food to Feed a Billion People
Land Grabs to Exacerbate Africa's Water Woes

Foreign-backed agriculture projects to grow food and biofuels for export may result in millions of people losing access to water sources that they rely on for their livelihoods, a ... Read more »
- Africa: Squeezing Africa Dry - Behind Every Land Grab is a Water Grab
- Africa: Land Grabs Leave Africa Facing 'Hydrological Suicide' - Report
Africa: Study Gives Warning on Land Deals

A study has revealed that African nations risk giving investors access to large areas of land in deals that fail to deliver real benefits or create new social and environmental ... Read more »
- Africa: Study Warns Against 'Secretive, One-Sided' Land Deals

Tanzania To Curb Land Grabbing