Mozambique

UK-based social impact and sub-Saharan-focused investor AgDevCo announced its latest investment of $3 million in Quinta da Bela Vista Limitada – an irrigated banana estate in Mozambique’s Boane area.

The Silverlands I portfolio, the continent’s largest agricultural investment fund, includes primary production and beef and poultry assets across South Africa, Namibia, eSwatini, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique.

A farmer in Mozambique pointed to issues related to a Japan-led project to support agriculture in the southern African country that ended last month.

Sayaka Funada-Classen reports that the Japanese and Mozambican governments have announced the termination of ProSAVANA, a huge victory for Mozambican peasant movements and tri-national peoples solidarity

O Ministério da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural torna público que os parceiros envolvidos com o Governo no Programa ProSAVANA acordaram o seu término com a conclusão do “Projecto para o Estabelecimento de Modelo de Desenvolvimento ao Nível das Comunidades com Melhoria do Serviço de Extensão Rural no Desenvolvimento Agrícola do Corredor de Nacala em Moçambique”

2019年12月23日に参議院議員会館で開催された９名の衆参国会議員による主催勉強会、「プロサバンナ事業に関する勉強会」の逐語議事録です。

WFI’s estates represent the largest avocado-growing footprint in the world, with operations in all major growing regions including southern Africa, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and the state of California.

This paper explores the history of one of the world’s largest land grabbing deals signed by Japan, Brazil and Mozambique in 2009 through official documents and recordings, especially of the Japanese actors involved.

Brazil and Japan plotted a farming revolution in Mozambique. But instead of sowing soya, they planted seeds of opposition.

「最後の巨大マーケット」と言われるアフリカ。日本政府は民間投資の拡大などに力を入れていますが、現地では日本が後押しする大規模な農業開発への根強い反発が続いています。何が起きているのでしょうか。

The attainment of democratic rights – including the right to access, control and defend land – must be defended and advanced through everyday struggles; laws and policies on their own won’t make significant change

In our APRA study, we have been asking: what actually happens on the ground, even when corridors as originally planned are slow to materialise? Do the grand visions play out as expected? Who is involved and who loses out?