Agri-investments often live through political regimes, and in cases of radical political change, the hopes of investors may be thwarted by unforeseen events and dynamics. With its recent turbulent political history, Tanzania offers unique opportunity to investigate the multi-layered and changing politics of farmland investments. Joanny Bélair has taken up this task in her research and recent book “Tanzania’s Land Rush”, from which she reports. Joanny is currently research manager for the Canadian Bureau for International Education but was previously a research fellow at Utrecht University, working closely with LANDac. Her research agenda is focused on the political economy surrounding farmland investments in sub-Saharan Africa and their long-term resilience impacts on rural communities. See more here: https://institutionallandscapes.org/contribution/22-tanzanias-land-rush-a-zero-sum-game-farmland-investments-in-tanzania/
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Stay tuned for more posts in the pipeline, including Andrew Ofstehage on his ethnography of assetized farms in Brazil (“Assetized Farms on the Ground and off the Ground”) and Adam Calo, Sarah Ruth Sippel, Sylvia Kay, Coline Perrin and Kirsten Shields on “Transforming land for sustainable food: Emerging contests to property regimes in the Global North”.
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