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Tanzania sugar project leaves bitter taste for farmers caught up in land disputes

2015-10-21 13:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ariel Zirulnick: Per Carstedt, executive chairman of the Swedish company Agro EcoEnergy, has a vision for a shrubby tract of land on the north Tanzanian coast. Under his firms plan, farmers who once depended on subsistence work will earn wages on a sugarcane plantation or from selling sugarcane they grow to a planned processing facility. The factory will process sugar for export as well as for ethanol. The fields will be crisscrossed with irrigation canals and treated with a mix of organic and synthetic fertiliser....

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