Mozambican farmer questions Japan-led support project
- Nippon
- 04 August 2020
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.
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
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.
Several agribusiness initiatives have stalled due to a combination of administrative logjams and a hostile political environment that increasingly questions the real motives behind the sudden interest by foreigners in African agriculture.
Brazil and Japan plotted a farming revolution in Mozambique. But instead of sowing soya, they planted seeds of opposition.
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
Mozambique's national peasant organisation UNAC dissociates itself from a press release issued by the Civil Society Platforms of the provinces of Nampula, Zambezia and Niassa, in relation to the Master Plan of the Prosavana programme.
Declaration by the peasants’ movements and civil society organizations from Mozambique, Brazil and Japan at the 4th Triangular Peoples’ Conference against ProSAVANA in Tokyo
At the Triangular People's Conference on ProSavana in Tokyo, Japanese researcher Sayaka Funada-Classen explains how this agricultural megaproject in northern Mozambique follows Japan's historical model.
The Administrative Court of Maputo orders the Ministry of Agriculture to provide all information of public interest on ProSAVANA, an agriculture project between the Mozambican, Brazilian and Japanese governments
New webdocumentary about land grabbing in the Nacala Corridor in Mozambique
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 Vicuñas and the $9,000 sweater
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