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Tanzania's agriculture revolution: land grabs or a welcome business boom?
2013-06-20 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Mawalima Yamba, 62, shared her husband with another woman. As the second wife she didn't stand to inherit much. When her husband became terminally ill and died, she inherited a small stretch of poor scrubland that borders an unfinished road in Iringa, western Tanzania; the fertile land went to his first wife. There was a separate area of land that Yamba had farmed, but never expected she could own. Encouraged by her husband before he died, she applied for legal ownership. Yamba now holds title deeds...
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