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Tanzania: 'large-scale farming turns small farmers into mere labourers'
by Claire Provost and Erick Kabendera
The Guardian Translate This Article
20 February 2014
On 20 February 2014 The Guardian reported:
Tanzania has joined the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, launched by Barack Obama . Because of that, it committed to changing its tax and seed policies and make it easier for investors to gain access to land. Zitto Kabwe, chairman of the Tanzanian parliament's public accounts committee, believes his government's tax-related commitments will benefit companies rather than small farmers, while proposed changes around seeds could pose serious threats to rural communities. 'Anything that involves facilitating seed importation is a threat,' he said. 'It will be like colonialism. Farmers will not be able to farm until they import, linking farmers to vulnerability of international prices. Big companies will benefit. We should not allow that.' Doug Hertzler, a senior policy analyst at ActionAid USA, echoed Kabwe's concerns, warning that while not every New Alliance project will be bad, the overall emphasis is in the wrong direction. 'It is all about creating markets for the chemical and the seed companies that are owned by the international companies rather than public services, which is the best way for smallholders to grow and expand,' he said, adding that big changes in access to land, with more going to commercial firms, could create 'unequal land tenure patterns which will last for generations'.
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