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Mozambique Farmers Fear Corporate Land Grabs

Small-scale farmers fear that corporates will continue to encroach on farmland due to an agricultural programme inspired by tropical agriculture technology pioneered in Brazil.
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South Africa made a large grab in Mozambique, seizing more than 1 million hectares of land from its neighbor to the northeast. (file photo)

  • Mozambique:   Vale Denies Blocking Access to Farmland

    AIM, 27 December 2013

    The Brazilian mining company Vale has denied cutting off access to farming land within its concession area in Moatize, in the western Mozambican province of Tete. Read more »

  • Africa:   Investing in African Agriculture - What's in It for Brazil?

    IDS, 10 September 2013

    Last month, José Graziano da Silva, the director general of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, underlined the importance of south-south co-operation in agricultural… Read more »

  • Africa:   China and Brazil in African Agriculture

    IDS, 15 July 2013

    New research published by the Institute of Development Studies reveals the realities of how the BRICS and Africa are engaging in agricultural development cooperation. Read more »

  • Mozambique:   Agriculture Project Challenged

    AfricaFocus, 12 June 2013

    "We, the rural populations, families from the communities of the Nacala Corridor, religious organisations and Mozambican civil society, recognising the importance and urgency of… Read more »

  • Mozambique:   The Anatomy of a Land Deal

    UNIRIN, 22 May 2013

    A multi-million dollar "ethical" plantation development in northwestern Mozambique - the initiative of a clutch of Scandinavian faith-based organizations - has faced alleged acts… Read more »

  • Mozambique:   Mozambican Farmers Fear Foreign Land Grabs

    IPS, 22 February 2013

    Mozambican farmers' unions believe that soon land will become very scarce for locals as the government leases more and more of it to foreign agribusinesses - thus displacing… Read more »

  • Mozambique:   Nacala Agriculture Fund Launched

    AIM, 23 July 2012

    The Brazilian Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), and the Mozambican Ministry of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Brazilian cooperation Agency (ABC), launched in Maputo on Friday… Read more »

  • Mozambique:   Agreement On Nacala Fund

    AIM, 6 July 2012

    The governments of Mozambique, Brazil and Japan on Wednesday signed in Brazilia a technical cooperation agreement, intended to raise finance for agro-industrial development in the… Read more »

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