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| Intention of investment |
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| Comment on nature of the deal | Qatar has requested 40,000 hectares for agricultural use. In return, it is willing to fund a major infrastructure project, a new port in Lamu. | |
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Local communities / indigenous peoples | ||
| Community reaction | Mixed reaction | |
| Comment on community reaction | There is strong local opposition, with environmental concerns and protests from local communities regarding the potential destruction of grazing land. | |
| Negative impacts for local communities | Environmental degradation, Other | |
| Comment on negative impacts for local communities | There is strong local opposition, with environmental concerns and protests from local communities regarding the potential destruction of grazing land. | |
Former use | ||
| Comment on former land owner | The land is considered communal by pastoralists | |
| Comment on former land use | Used it for grazing up to 60,000 cattle during the dry season. | |
Produce info | ||
Water | ||
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Overall comment | ||
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Locations | ||
Location #EvQu-ZYM | ||
| Comment | Located in Tana River Delta | The proposed deal involves leasing 40,000 hectares of land near the Tana River delta, in northeast Kenya, close to the island of Lamu. Lamu is also the site for a proposed £2.4bn port development funded by Qata. |
Data sources | ||
Data source #1v4D8V71 | ||
| Publication title | Troubles in the Delta | |
| Organisation | Seed Magazine | |
Data source #wetoQRBt | ||
| Url | ||
| Date | 2013-02 | |
| Comment on data source | Who Gets the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production? Biomass
Distribution & the ‘Sugar Economy’ in the Tana Delta, Kenya. LDPI Working
Paper 5 | Who Gets the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production? Biomass Distribution & the ‘Sugar Economy’ in the Tana Delta, Kenya. LDPI Working Paper 5.
URL link no longer works -http://www.iss.nl/fileadmin/ASSETS/iss/Research_and_projects/Research_networks/LDPI/LDPI_WP_05.pdf |
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