Deal #2401

Zambia
Created at
2013-02-15
Last update
2022-06-10
Last full update
2022-06-10

Consultation of local community

Community consultation
Limited consultation

How did the community react?

Community reaction
Mixed reaction
Comment on community reaction
Partly, land was demarcated without the notice or consent of local people

Presence of land conflicts

Presence of land conflicts
Yes

Displacement of people

Displacement of people
Yes
Number of people actually displaced
2 500
Comment on displacement of people
For the establishment of the Nansanga Farm Block, MACO decided to allocate the best land along the river to the large-scale commercial venture. The 43 families who occupied this land had been relocated to another area on the farm block. This is for the total farm block of which the core commercial concession is only a small part.

Negative impacts for local communities

Negative impacts for local communities
Socio-economic

Promised benefits for local communities

Promised benefits for local communities
Productive infrastructure (e.g. irrigation, tractors, machinery...), Roads

Materialized benefits for local communities

Comment on materialized benefits for local communities
no information on whether benefits materialized.