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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.

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.

We commit ourselves to opposing the ProSavana Programme so that neo-colonial land grabs will come to an end.

Video of a seminar in Hokkaido, Japan on the ProSavana project featuring representatives of UNAC.

“In the very short term land will became scarcest for Mozambicans because the government is attracting foreign investors arguing that we have huge unused land“, a spokesperson for UNAC told IPS. “What happens, in fact, when investors come, their appetite is centered on land already being used by locals.”

Entrevista com o governo federal deputado Luiz Nishimori

Report on Japan's role in the ProSAVANA programme in Mozambique by Sayaka Funada Classen.

Este artigo de Sayaka Funada Classen examina as características e os antecedentes do Programa de Cooperação Triangular para o Desenvolvimento da Agricultura das Savanas Tropicais em Moçambique assinado conjuntamente pelos governos do Japão, Brasil e Moçambique em 2009.

A Justiça Ambiental/FOE Moçambique condena veemente todo o processo de elaboração e implementação do ProSavana

Justiça Ambiental (Friends of the Earth - Mozambique) strongly condemns the whole process of preparing and implementing ProSavana

The Itochu Corporation acquires a 33.4% stake in HyLife, one of Canada's largest pig producers, for $56.5 million.

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.