Public Debate on Land Grabbing in Tanzania

Public Debate on Land Grabbing in Tanzania

This discussion could't come at a better time given the fact that land grabbing is alarmingly becoming a national disaster, reminscent of what is currently bedevilling out neighbours accross our northern boarder. My question is, whether we have an elaborate National Land Policy which would provide all the answers to this problem and whether the stewards of this source of livelihood to the majority of the population are equal to the task entrusted to them.

I would love to see what comes out of the discussion and whether the resolutions will be taken on board in trying to address what will soon become an injustice to the people.
 
Ilulu said:
Rais amepewa nguvu nyingi sana kwenye masuala ya ardhi kisheria, napengekeza kupokelewa kwa pendekezo la Prof. Shivji kuwa management ya Land in Tanzania yawe chini ya independent Institution, wazo ambalo serikali ililikataa katika mapendekezo ya Tume yake miaka iliyopita
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Even then the question will be: Do we have credible people, transparently sourced to serve as the Land Commission. My fear stems from the fact that people have become so colonised in the minds and all they think about is money! Can they resist the temptation?
 
yes.. this is typically the shortfalls of our policies on land , settlements and dwelling

it is unclear who is the first beneficiary of the land and what are strategic plans to enhance the use and benefits of the land ..... there are no exit plans or long term/future plans on urbanization ..... it is critically wrong to do planing in urban areas only..... land planning should take its course throughout the territory including survey of possible blocks of farms, areas for cultivation, pastoralism, natural conservation, mining, industrialization, military arsenals, fishing, water sources and so many

this is why we had a man made disaster in gongolamboto

indeed it is a challenging debate
 
Mkuu MTM,

Nashukuru kwa mapendekezo yako, nimeyawasilisha na nimetambulishwa. Kwa bahati kuna wawakilishi wa vyama vya siasa nao wanatoa malalamiko yao.

Kuna mdau hapa kagusia kuwa Wizara ya Ardhi inatakiwa kuwapa wanaonunua muda maalum kuhakikisha maeneo yaliyonunuliwa yanaendelezwa.

Mkuu Profesy,

La Barrick nikiliingiza hapa sijui nianzie wapi.

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Kuna jambo limenifurahisha hapa, kumbe katiba ya sasa haiongelei kwa kina juu ya umiliki wa ardhi
 
Tanzania inatakiwa iwe na board ya Ardhi ambayo itakuwa inajua kila inchi ya ardhi ya tanzania inamilikiwa na nani na kwa misingi gani, wao ndio watakao kuwa wana ridhia kuingia mikataba na individuals, ma-kampuni na wawekezaji kwa maslaha ya Taifa hususana mikata hiyo inapo wahusisha watu wa nje, na Prof Shivji anafaa saana kwa hili kwani huko nyuma alishawahi kutoa ripoti ya kuhusu sheria za ardhi mpaka za vijijini na nafikiri alitoa mapendekezo, lakini kama kawaida ya Tz wanasiasa wanaakili saana kuliko wana taaluma.

By the way kinacho iangusha tanzania ni wanataaluma kujiweka nyuma saana ya mambo mengi.

Hivi karibuni kumekuwepo na mawazo au vitendo vya wawekezaji wa nje kukodisha/kununua ardhi kwa ajili ya kilimo iwe korea/bangladeshi/arabia nk nk badala ya kuingia mikataba ya uzalishaji au wa kimanagement zaidi ili tuwafanyie hiyo kazi.
 
Ardhi iwekwe chini ya Mamlaka ya Bunge.

Kumpa raisi uwezo wa ardhi, tukipata raisi mbaya anaweza kuuza nchi, au tukipata raisi kibaraka asiyejali maslahi ya nchi anaweza kuuza nchi pia
 
Mmongolilomo said:
Yah kuna Land Policy of 1999 which gives the land ownership right to every Tanzanian and this policy grants special right to women, Also Land Act and Village Land Act both of 1999 recognize the right to use and ownership of land although all land in Tanzania is public land under President as a Trustee.
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Land policy ni ya 1995. land right can be annalysed from different perspectives. One is the right of everyone (i meas tanzanians) to use and occupy land as per land act of 1999, in which it reffer as right of occupancy.

Another perspective of land right is the right reserved for the one who has acquire land either through customary or right of occupancy. he has the right to use land for a specified period of time.

Another perspective is the right that third party person have over the land of another. These are called easements example of third party right are right of way, right of water (which is challenging right now days and mind u right of water is different from water right)
 
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Ki ukweli I have learnt vitu vingi sana kupitia comment zenu wadau kwa kweli na shukuru kwa michango yenu inayotia chachu ya kunitaka nipitie vizuri katiba yetu na kufahamu zaidi yanayoendelea nchini kwetu.
 
In fact this is the most important topic; discussion about Land is very complex issue, let's start from local government; are the trusted people doing their job? Do they stick on rules!? , do they think about our coming generation!?

Inasikitisha sana ndugu zangu hawa jamaa wa ardhi sina hata cha kusema ni balaa na ni miungu watu? Nenda Kigamboni Kata ya Somangila ukajionee jinsi wananchi wanavyo buruzwa kuhusu ardhi yao waliyoikalia kwa muda mrefu, kwa nini wasipimiwe hiyo ardhi?, hivi mtanzania wa hali ya Chini ataweza kununua kiwanja kwa bei ya 10,000/sqm kweli?

Ardhi siku hizi imekuwa biashara kuu ya serikali, serikali badala ya kutoa huduma ya kupimia watu makazi inafanya biashara ya ardhi ili ipate faida na hapo ni baada ya kuwadhurumu wananchi, kweli!?

Jamani tusaidieni kwa hili ni janga la kitaifa yaani balaa.
 
Companies in Bangladesh are planning to lease thousands of hectares of farm land in some African countries.

They are in talks with Tanzania and Uganda hoping to acquire the rights to grow crops on arable land.

The BBC's Anbarasan Ethirajan reports from the capital Dhaka, that Bangladesh has the manpower to cultivate good crops in Africa.
BBC News - Bangladesh wants African land to farm
 
Kama wana vigezo vya uwekezaji tulivyoweka kupitia TIC basi hamna wasi wasi....lakini hatutaki ubabaishaji....
 
Africa 'can feed itself in a generation'
By Neil Bowdler Science reporter, BBC News
A woman preparing food in Uganda The new study says Africa could become a major exporter if leaders show political will

A new book claims Africa could feed itself within a generation, and become a major agricultural exporter.

The book, The New Harvest, by Harvard University professor Calestous Juma, calls on African leaders to make agricultural expansion central to all decision-making.

Improvements in infrastructure, mechanisation and GM crops could vastly increase production, he claims.

The findings are being presented to African leaders in Tanzania today.

The presidents of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi are holding an informal summit to discuss African food security and climate change.

Speaking to the BBC ahead of the meeting, Professor Juma said African leaders had to recognise that "agriculture and economy for Africa are one and the same".

"It is the responsibility of an African president to modernise the economy and that means essentially starting with the modernisation of agriculture," he said.
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Professor Juma

More African countries are going to have to think about new genomics techniques"

Professor Calestous Juma Harvard University

Global food production has rocketed in recent decades but has stagnated in many parts of Africa, despite the continent having "abundant" arable land and labour, says Professor Juma.

He estimates that while food production has grown globally by 145% over the past 40 years, African food production has fallen by 10% since 1960, which he attributes to low investment.

While 70% of Africans may be engaged in farming, those who are undernourished on the continent has risen by 100 million to 250 million since 1990, he estimates.

The professor's blueprint calls for the expansion of basic infrastructure, including new road, irrigation and energy schemes.

Farms should be mechanised, storage and processing facilities built, while biotechnology and GM crops should be used where they can bring benefits.

But what was needed above all else was the political will at the highest level.

"You can modernise agriculture in an area by simply building roads, so that you can send in seed and move out produce," he told the BBC.
A chart showing how Africa and the World compare on tractors, water and fertiliser

"The ministers for roads are not interested in connecting rural areas, they are mostly interested in connecting urban areas. It's going to take a president to go in and say I want a link between agricultural transportation and then it will happen."

He believes there is great scope to expand crops traditionally grown in Africa, such as millet, sorghum, cassava or yams.

He sees areas where farmers will need to adapt to tackle a changing climate - cereal farmers may switch into livestock, he says, while others may chose more radical options.

"Tree crops like breadfruit, which is from the Pacific, could be introduced in Africa because trees are more resistant to climate change."

He also envisages genetic modification playing a growing role in African agriculture, with GM cotton and GM maize, which are already being grown on the continent, just the start of things to come.

"You need to be able to breed new crops and adapt them to local conditions... and that is going to force more African countries to think about new genomics techniques."
Kitchen sink

George Mukkath, director of programmes at the charity Farm Africa, welcomed the study, but said with many African states investing less than 10% of their GDP in agriculture, politicians had to "put their money where their mouths are".

"It's what we've been shouting about for several years," he said. "African productivity is low. If there's an investment then African farmers are very capable of producing enough food not only to feed themselves but also for the export market."

But Dr Steve Wiggins, a research fellow at a British think-tank, the Overseas Development Institute, said that modest practical changes were preferable to long wish-lists.

"It's perfectly possible to get Africa on a much higher growth rate but I wouldn't have such a long list of things to do, particularly if I thought it was going to pre-empt all government investment," he said. "To make a difference, you don't need to throw the kitchen sink at the problem."

He also warned that Africa's urban centres could not be ignored, not least because they provide important markets for African farmers.
"CHANGES ARE INNEVITABLE" LETS EXPECT GOOD THINGS TO COME VIDE OUR PRESIDENT'S TALK WITH THIS FAR EAST PEOPLE.
 
Bangladesh nao wanataka kuwekeza Tanzania!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kweli tumegeuka kichwa cha mwendawazimu.........
 
Jamani,

CCM inauza ardhi yetu watanzania, tena wanawauzia mashirika ya nje bila hata sisi kujua. Je hii mikataba tumeiona? Je tunajua hawaviongozi wetu wanachukua hongo kiasi gani kuuza nchi yetu?

Inaelekea tunalala tu mwishowe tutaamka tukishitukia kama alivyosema desmond Tutu'the white man has the land and the black man has the bible'.

Nataka hii thread tuorodheshe ardhi yote iliouzwa na mafisadi wa CCM. Jamani watanzania tuamke.

Kwa kuanzia, haya madudu nimeyaona leo: June 09 2011, source , The star newspaper-----In Tanzania, 200,000 refugees from Burundi are being forced off their land for a 300,000 hectare bio-fuel project. Many have been farming on the land for 40 years, but now the government is moving them out.----------
 
Is greed fuelling the land grab in Africa?

June 9, 2011 18:06:00 Debra Black
Staff Reporter

A U.S. think-tank is calling for a moratorium on the sale of land in Africa to hedge funds, investment firms and bio-energy companies until they begin to use ethical and fair negotiations when dealing with local farmers and villages.

The California-based Oakland Institute says that largely unregulated land purchases by hedge funds and foreign speculators result in virtually none of the "promised benefits" for native populations in a recently released report.

"We are finding these are false promises for Africa," said Frederic Mousseau, policy director for the think-tank, in an interview with the Star.

Millions of local farmers are being forced off their land to make room for agribusiness, backed by bio-fuel companies, investment firms and hedge funds, Mousseau said. And the deals lack any transparency.

These groups are sometimes paying very little to use the land, paying in some cases in Sierra Leone and Ethiopia as little as $2 per hectare to rent land. And in other cases, the population is being forced off the land without any compensation.

In one land transfer, witnessed by the institute's executive director Anuradha Mittal, a poor tribal chief was given a bottle of Johnny Walker in exchange for land in Zambia, Mousseau said.

Many of the land contracts run for 99 years, with no clauses specifying when any of the promised benefits like schools or health services will be delivered, he added. "We have many instances where the local population feels misled."

The institute says that in 2009 alone nearly 60 million hectares of land - an area the size of France - was purchased or leased in what they describe as "land grabs."

And while promises of new infrastructure, investment dollars, jobs and tax revenues for cash-strapped African nations are made, they often fail to materialize, according to the report.

"We see huge amounts of fiscal incentives for investors, including tax holidays, but very little tax revenues from these investments," it added.
The Oakland Institute sent researchers to seven African countries - Ethiopia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Tanzania, south Sudan and Zambia.

"We studied what was happening on the ground with communities, investigated what government and investors were doing and the international role of financial institutions," Mousseau said.

And what they found did not paint a picture of burgeoning wealth, but rather one of continuing poverty for many, he said.

Researchers were told of cases in Mali by farm organizations that valuable land was given away for free to foreign investors. Farm groups said that they believed that the land could have been put to better use if local farmers were left to work the land and get out of poverty.

In Tanzania, 200,000 refugees from Burundi are being forced off their land for a 300,000 hectare bio-fuel project. Many have been farming on the land for 40 years, but now the government is moving them out.

And while many believed that the land was being grabbed by firms from India, China, Saudi Arabia and other emerging countries, Mousseau said the report found that many Western firms from Germany, England and the Netherlands, are buying up land as well.

These include: The London-based Emergent Asset Management; the Swiss-based Addax Bioenergy; Quifel International Holdings based in Portugal; the U.S.-based AgriSol Energy; Pharos Financial Group, a Russian hedge fund, and some prestigious American universities, including Harvard, Spellman and Vanderbilt.

And what's motivating them is not an effort to reduce hunger in Africa, but rather energy and bio-fuels, Mousseau stresses. "A very important driver of this land grab is the American and European policies around bio-fuels."

The institute suggests in its report that this land trend will do nothing but create insecurity in the global food system, which may be a much bigger threat to the world than terrorism.

It will also lead to conflict, environmental devastation, water loss and political instability, the report said.
 
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