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In Tanzania, there are several laws governing the process of land acquisitions. However, the practice has shown that there are local politics that dominate the process and which often vary between local and foreign investments. Such politics have differentiated gender approaches and impacts and are viewed differently across communities and geographies. Using two investments, one foreign and the other domestic, this chapter explores different approaches used in land acquisitions and the perceptions of communities toward such approaches in Chakenge Village of Kisarawe District in the Coastal Region of Tanzania. The chapter also shows the impact of food insecurity causing labor movement to non-agrarian activities and how the general national political economy in the last decade has shaped the politics of land acquisitions at the local village level.
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Massay, G.E. (2020). Local Politics of Land Acquisitions for Foreign and Domestic Investments in Tanzania. In: Osabuohien, E.S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41513-6_20
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