 In 1976, the Barabaig people challenged their eviction from the Hanang District of the Manyara Region, due to the government's decision to grow wheat in the region, funded by the Canadian Food Aid Programme.The wheat program would later become the National Agricultural and Food Corporation (NAFCO).NAFCO would lose a different suit to the Mulbadaw Village Council in 1981, which upheld customary land rights.