• Maharashtra’s sugar cooperatives seek to expand in Africa
    • Live Mint
    • 07 May 2013

    Governments in African countries lease out land at low rates, which makes it attractive to investors

  • Olam Moçambique announces “large investments” for next four years
    • Macauhub
    • 07 May 2013

    Olam is putting together an investment plan for the areas of agricultural production and food distribution, which could equal the amount of investment made since it started operating in Mozambique.

  • The smallholders’ last stand
    • New Internationalist
    • 06 May 2013

    A visit to Mozambique dispels any notion that big business is going to ‘feed Africa’. Hazel Healy reports on a land rush in full swing.

  • Mosambik: „Terras baratas“
    • afrika süd
    • 03 May 2013

    Mosambik lockt kommerzielle Farmer, um die vernachlässigte Landwirtschaft zu modernisieren. Mega-Projekt ProSavana: Dem Agrobusiness wird ein riesiges Gebiet im Norden zur Erschließung überlassen. Brasilien exportiert mit Finanzmitteln aus Japan sein Agrarmodell samt der Widersprüche nach Afrika. Doch formiert sich Widerstand.

  • Leaked ProSAVANA Master Plan confirms worst fears
    • Justiça Ambiental et al
    • 30 April 2013

    Civil society groups warn secretive plan paves the way for a massive land grab in northern Mozambique.

  • Próximos 10 anos: Rioforte prioriza agricultura
    • MMO Noticias
    • 18 April 2013

    A sociedade, de acordo com a fonte, terá como uma das suas primeiras prioridades concentrar os seus esforços no crescimento da primeira subsidiária directa do seu portfólio, a Mozaco – Mozambique Agricultural Corporation.

  • Prosavana - Críticas e esclarecimentos
    • ProSavana - críticas e esclarecimentos
    • 11 April 2013

    Desde seu lançamento, o ProSavana é acusado de tentar destruir a agricultura moçambicana por meio de uma “invasão de megaprodutores brasileiros”, que “se utilizariam de financiamento japonês”, em uma “repetição do processo que destruiu o Cerrado brasileiro”. A lista de acusações é infindável, e, obviamente, há equívocos que devem ser esclarecidos.

  • Prosavana agreement signed in Tokyo
    • The Zimbabwean
    • 05 April 2013

    It covers about 700,000 hectares in Mozambique, and is based on a project that Japan implemented in Brazil in the 1970s, which revolutionised agricultural production in an area now regarded as the most productive in Brazil.

  • Agronegócio avança em Moçambique e ameaça agricultura do país
    • MST
    • 04 April 2013

    Programa agrícola de investimentos entre Brasil, Japão e Moçambique para desenvolver a agricultura numa área de aproximadamente 14,5 milhões de hectares no país africano, o ProSavana está gerando polêmica.

  • “África ha sido y es un gran laboratorio”
    • Librered
    • 29 Mar 2013

    "En algún momento, China puede ser el principal gobernador de la región. Está acumulando y “comprando” África, empujándola a salir del monocultivo y diversificarse para la demanda china"

  • Chinese and Brazilian cooperation with African agriculture: The case of Mozambique
    • Future Agricultures
    • 26 Mar 2013

    Report examines Brazil’s programme to transform Mozambique’s Nacala corridor, the Chinese Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre, and a private Chinese rice investment project in the Xai-Xai irrigation scheme.

  • Soberanía de la Tierra
    • Palabre - Ando
    • 18 Mar 2013

    Es en este marco de ‘un acaparamiento global de tierras’ que hemos de entender las propuestas de fracking, donde se enfrentan frente a frente dos modelos civilizatorios.

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