"Large-scale agricultural investments threaten right to food of small-scale farmers in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands”

Large-scale agricultural investments in Tanzania threaten the right to food of small-scale farmers, argues a new report. The report is based upon first-hand interviews with farmers in four villages of Tanzania’s Southern Highlands utilizing a right to food framework.
 
While the right to food asserts that all should have access to food by directly producing it for themselves and/or having sufficient means to purchase it, the research indicates that the four large-scale agricultural investments investigated have restricted people’s access to land and other productive resources, as well as living wages, with distressing effects on their right to food…