Mozambique

Justiça Ambiental/FOE Mozambique’s position on the Prosavana Program
- JA!/FOE
- 25 January 2013
Justiça Ambiental (Friends of the Earth - Mozambique) strongly condemns the whole process of preparing and implementing ProSavana
Soya boom in Gúruè has produced few bigger farmers – so far
- 11 January 2013
Thousands of subsistence farmers in Gúruè district are earning small amounts of money from soya. However, there are a few larger farmers. And land conflicts are increasing.
Empresa indiana investe em Moçambique na produção de feijão-da-china e sementes de sésamo
- Macauhub
- 10 January 2013
A empresa indiana Primus Agri Projects Private Limited está a investir 3 milhões de dólares na província de Nampula, em Moçambique, para a produção em moldes empresariais de feijão-da-china (“Vigna Radiata”) e sementes de sésamo
Des Indiens investissent dans le sésame au Mozambique
- Agence Ecofin
- 10 January 2013
Primus Agri Products Private Ltd va investir $ 3 millions pour produire du haricot mungo et du sésame dans la province de Nampula au Mozambique.
Indian company invests in mung bean and sesame seed production in Mozambique
- Macauhub
- 10 January 2013
Primus Agri Products is investing US$3 million to commercially produce mung beans and sesame seeds on 170 ha in Mozambique’s Nampula province for export to Asia.
The Race for Land
- Forum Syd
- 31 December 2012
Land grabbing i fattiga länder har ökat dramatiskt under senare år. Det visar den nya rapporten ”The race for land” som Forum Syd, Afrikagrupperna och Kooperation Utan Gränser lanserade i december.
The race for land
- Forum Syd
- 31 December 2012
This report from Afrika Grupperna, Forum Syd and Swedish Cooperative Centre examines different drivers behind the recent escalation of land deals as well as common arguments legitimating land grabbing, looking at case studies from Cambodia and Mozambique.
Mozambique: "Pro-Savana" will not deprive farmers of land
- AIM
- 26 December 2012
The Mozambican government has insisted that no farmer will lose land as a result of the “Pro-Savana” agricultural development programme in the north of the country.
Moçambique: Governo defende transferência de tecnologias no Baixo Limpopo
- Diario de Moçambique
- 15 December 2012
O governante falava na capital provincial da Gaza durante a cerimónia de assinatura de memorandos de entendimento entre as empresas RBL e Wanbao, formalizando a concessão de cerca de 20 mil hectares de terra arável no Baixo Limpopo à companhia da China, que deverá explorar durante meio século.
Land conflicts in Tete and Gaza
- Joseph Hanlon
- 14 December 2012
The NGO FONGA claims that 80,000 people will be thrown off the land by Wanbao, a Chinese company that signed a concession for 20,000 ha in Gaza Provice Mozambique for rice production.
Interview with GRAIN on the ProSavana project
- EJOLT
- 13 December 2012
Imagine a land of 14 million hectares, bigger than Switzerland and Austria combined. Populated by millions of farming families that together practice shifting cultivation. Now imagine a foreign consultant saying that all of these are abandoned lands.
African Agricultural Growth Corridors: Who benefits, who loses?
- EcoNexus
- 11 December 2012
Governments, IFIs and corporations are collaborating in major new projects to reorder land and water use and create industrial infrastructure over millions of ha in Africa to ensure sustained supplies of commodities and profits for markets.