Proposed benefits sharing model in large scale land investment (Tripartite Bonding Model): A case of Kilombero, Ulanda and Malinyi districts of Tanzania
Mbaraka R. Stambuli
Tanzania as many African countries inspires to attain its developmental goals through investment on land particularly through large scale commercial agriculture and mining while safeguarding land tenure security. The Government through policies and incentives aims to increase agricultural investment. For example through Kilimo Kwanza (“Agriculture First”) initiative, the Tanzanian government seeks to attract large scale investment in land through Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT). This is part of a larger strategy aimed at increasing the incomes, productivity and food security of Tanzania’s smallholder farmers. The government hopes to achieve this by encouraging investors to utilize investment structures that ensure all parties such as local communities, national and sub-national governments and investors equitably share benefits accruing from large scale agricultural investment. Tanzania has a long (more than 10 years) experience in designing and implementing Large Scale Investments in Land (LSIL) especially in agriculture sector. However, fewer of those initiatives have proved success due to, among other things, weak agricultural policies, business environment and particularly land issues. On the other hand, there seems to be considerable potential of these initiatives to support local development through providing incomes, infrastructure and community compensations. In general, the policies to attract Large Scale Investments in Land are not yet sufficiently developed, coordinated and implemented. Though, a number of policies, initiatives and instruments have been devised over the past years to foster large agro-investments and to improve their impact on national social and economic development, the benefits of LSIL among the Government, Investors and Villagers are not well defined within the exiting legal framework and institutional setup.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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