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1 Background information on Mtibwa Sugar Estate can be found on the Sugar Board of Tanzania webpage: http://www.sbt.go.tz/index.php/factories
2 More information on KPL is available at: http://www.agrica.com/html/project1.html
3 See: Mtibwa Sugar Estates Limited 2009.
4 See the Agrica webpage: http://www.agrica.com/html/background.html
5 The Rufiji Basin Development Authority (RUBADA) is a corporate body established by the Act of Parliament No: 5 of 1975.The Authority is charged with multi-
sectoral responsibility for promoting, regulating, coordinating and facilitating sustainable and balanced long-term ecological and socioeconomic development activities
in the sectors of energy, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, tourism, mining, industry, transport and environment in the basin. The basin covers ca. 177,000 sq.km of land
(about 20 per cent of Tanzania's land) and 30 per cent of runoff water.
6 Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries.
7 Information on Capricorn and other KPL investors can be found at: http://www.agrica.com/html/investors.html
8 Mtibwa Sugar Estate Daily Rainfall records 1952-2012, unpublished data set analysed by the author.
9 A major flood occurred at Kilombero on April 19, 2011, prior to the onset of fieldwork. The flood rendered the main road from Ifakara to KPL estate
impassable for a month, destroyed crops and pastures, and left several families in neighbouring villages homeless.
 
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