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Tanzania
Land has played a critical role in Tanzania’s historic trajectory. Current land tenure frameworks, resource governance, and related conflicts are closely intertwined with current neoliberal policies and land accumulation by foreign companies and domestic elites as well as dynamics of the (pre-)colonial period.
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Total population
56,318,348
Urban population
33.8 %
Land-related indicators
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Agricultural land
44.8 %
Perceived tenure security
64.2 %
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04 January 2024
Photo ID 557871 UN Photo/Tobin Jones (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)
Are you passionate about upholding Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP&LC) rights and supporting the protection of forests and biodiversity and the governance of IPLC land and forests in the African continent?
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23 May 2023
Mokoro is pleased to announce publication of the latest collaborative paper from the WOLTS team – Confident Gender and Land Champions: Building Critical Mass for Locally-Driven Change. The paper shares key findings from the most recent, dissemination-focused phase of WOLTS, our long-term,…
24 January 2023
On December 1, 2022, the Oakland Institute exposed how the Tanzanian government has made harsh cuts in vital public services, including health services and imposed strict livelihood restrictions, to force the Maasai out of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA). Resettlement plans for the…
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Tanzania is seen as “East Africa’s food forte” and its rich natural resources as well as its policy drive towards commercial agriculture attract land-related investments, such as in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT)
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08 July 2025
Photo: Lone Masai Women Stands Guard, Shane (Lost Australian), (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
If you were a woman in Tanzania in 1997, your right to inherit land was severely constricted. Under the National Land Policy, you could acquire land on your own through purchase or allocation, but inheriting clan land…
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Sharing practical strategies for empowering women on collectively-held lands
*Panel will be presented in English and simultaneous interpretation will be available in Spanish and Portuguese.
Ideal for timezones in the Americas, Atlantic, and West Africa regions.
Women around the…
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