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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria}}\\[1ex] \Large{``Solidarity in a competing world ---\\fair use of resources''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Large"=Scale Agricultural Investments (LSAIs): Prospects and Challenges of Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor Project of Tanzania (SAGCOT) \footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Benedict Mongula, University of Dar es Salaam, Inst. for Development Studies, Dar es Salaam, Ethiopia, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{mongula@uccmail.co.tz}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Benedict Mongula}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{University of Dar es Salaam, Inst. for Development Studies, Ethiopia}}}
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Based on global and national policy initiatives Tanzania has recently adopted large"=scale agricultural investments strategy. Policy developments toward global food security in G8 in 2009 coincided with Tanzania's agricultural policy titled ``Kilimo Kwanza''. The subsequent G8 Global New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition on the one hand, and the 2012 Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania Project (SAGCOT) on the other hand, further consolidated the idea of LSAIs.




The idea of (LSAIs) especially in food production is supported by a range of economic arguments such as volume of production and economies of scale, technological spill"=overs, higher productivity, surplus production and export potential, stable markets and access to farm inputs by out"=grower smallholder farmers, tax revenues, job creation and reduction of poverty. Conversely, those arguments are counter"=weighed by implications of alienation of peasant farmers from their traditional land"=plots and livelihoods, absence of job contracts, low wage rates and poor work conditions of plantation workers and poorly negotiated contracts between investors and out"=grower farmers. 




Using field data, the paper examines Tanzania's present endeavour with LSAIs and its implications on rural development with reference to SAGCOT.  It depicts firstly, the slow and complex process of implementing SAGCOT, and especially challenges of acquiring investment land as well as the roles played various institutions in the process. Furthermore, it points at the views of different stakeholders toward LSAIs, the effects of LSAIs on the well-being of rural communities as well as arising tensions and conflicts between local communities and investors. Lastly, it draws recommendations regarding the roles to be played by central government and local governments, crop authorities and civil society organisations in the implementation of SAGCOT, including to empower and protect rural local communities and plantation workers.



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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Agriculture, growth corridors, large"=scale investments, rural development
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