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Reafirmamos que investimentos como o ProSavana, programa de desenvolvimento do corredor logístico de Nacala e o programa Sustenta não são e jamais serão alternativas de desenvolvimento agrário que se ajustam às necessidades dos moçambicanos e moçambicanas".
The peasant men and women who are members of the No to ProSavana Campaign maintain our opposition to this program and the way it has been imposed on us
The project leaders of Wanbao Africa Agriculture Development Limited seemed to have an emerging-market hubris every bit as blinding as that of their colonial predecessors.
A group of Chinese businesspeople under the umbrella of the Jiangsu Huaxi Group consortium plan to invest US$6.2 million in a 2,000 ha grapefruit agricultural project in the central Mozambican province of Manica.
The Wanbao Mozambique rice farm, the largest of its kind undertaken by China in Africa, aims to develop 20,000 ha of farmland and contract with farmers in surrounding areas to grow crops over another 80,000 ha.
"Reiteramos a nossa posição contra o Programa ProSavana nos pressupostos em que foi desenhado e a forma como este tem sido imposto aos moçambicanos e moçambicanas, sendo que o convite para a referida reunião reforça esta imposição."
The banana plantation in Monapo, Nampula, that was supposed to be a model for foreign farm investment and was promoted by Norfund, has finally gone bankrupt, at huge cost to Mozambique.
