Land Grabbing

WASHINGTON

World Bank to Strengthen Focus on Land Rights

By Carey L. Biron
The World Bank will be placing stronger emphasis on issues of land tenure and socially and environmentally sustainable agricultural investing, it announced Monday.

Curbing Tanzania’s “Land Grabbing Race”

By Orton Kiishweko
From January 2013, Tanzania will start restricting the size of land that single large-scale foreign and local investors can “lease” for agricultural use. The decision follows both local and international criticism that major investors are grabbing large chunks of land here, often displacing small-scale farmers and local communities.