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   Accumulation by Land Dispossession and Labour Devaluation in Tanzania

   The Case of Biofuel and Forestry Investments in Kilwa and Kilolo

   Reports & Research

   December, 2010

   Tanzania

   Forest Tenure

   Land & Food Security

   Land & Investments

   advocacy

   agrarian reform

   agricultural and rural legislation

   collective ownership

   land acquisitions

   land governance

   land grabbing

   land investments

   land rights

   New commercial pressures on land and its impact on small producers is one of the major issues being discussed in both national and international arenas. As foreign states and corporate entities continue to exert pressures on African countries to acquire land for various investment purposes, Tanzania is not exempted. The country is stereotypically perceived as having large underutilized, or rather unexploited, fertile land – the so-called ‗virgin land‘.

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   Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania

   Investment Blueprint (High Resolution)

   Reports & Research

   January, 2011

   Tanzania

   Land & Food Security

   Land & Investments

   agrarian reform

   agrarian structure

   agricultural and rural legislation

   agricultural land management

   agriculture

   Building on Tanzania’s Kilimo Kwanza (‘Agriculture First’ strategy), the SAGCOT Investment Blueprint describes how $2.1 billion of private investment will be catalysed over a twenty year period, alongside public sector grants and loans of $1.3 billion. The result will be a tripling of the area’s agricultural output. Approximately 350,000 hectares will be brought into profitable production, much of it farmed by smallholder farmers, and with a significant area under irrigation. 

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   Customary land reform to facilitate private investment in Zambia: achievements, potentials and limitations

   Reports & Research

   December, 2010

   Zambia

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land & Food Security

   Land & Gender

   agrarian reform

   agricultural and rural legislation

   community land rights

   customary tenure

   In the name of development, governments in southern Africa are reformulating land policies to facilitate privatisation of customary land rights. It is argued that this can stimulate land markets, (foreign) private investment, access to formal credit, and enhance security of tenure (by way of holding title), thereby leading to economic growth and poverty alleviation.

4. Library Resource

   

   Evaluating the Impacts of Expanded Trade and Investment in Mining on Forests

   Customary Rights and Societal Stakes in the Copperbelt of Zambia

   Reports & Research

   January, 2011

   Zambia

   Land & Food Security

   Land & Investments

   agrarian reform

   agricultural and rural legislation

   forest conservation

   This paper analyzes the implications of copper mining in Zambia on customary rights to land and forests, and the societal stakes associated with foreign investment in the mining industry. Copper mining affects forests, and in turn the people with customary rights to those forests, in a number of direct and indirect ways, from deforestation during green site development and selective harvesting of timber to the significant but indirect pressures over forests through infrastructure development and the population pull effect of mining towns.