farmlandgrab.org | Mozambique

Qatar’s Al Mansour Holdings pledges $20 billion investment in Mozambique
- Ecofin
- 28 August 2025
The deal will channel funds into areas including agriculture, infrastructure, fisheries, livestock, logistics, and energy according to a statement.
TICAD in Yokohama: Reflecting on the real meaning of development in Africa
- Common Dreams
- 21 August 2025
The failed ProSAVANA agribusiness project in Mozambique demonstrates how “development” promoted from the Global North can harm communities and the environment. When public finance is involved, the risks—and the responsibility—are even greater.
Ex-BP executive gets go ahead for biggest African mangrove project
- Bloomberg
- 05 September 2024
The United Arab Emirates-based Blue Forest plans to start planting 200 million mangrove trees in Mozambique in a concession twice the size of Singapore in November.
Biodiesel brasileiro inspira plano de investimento em Moçambique
- Global Rural
- 10 June 2024
Governo de Moçambique e a União Brasileira do Biodiesel e Bioquerosene (Ubrabio) assinaram acordo para ampliar investimentos na expansão de produção de biodiesel sobre os 36 milhões de ha de terras agricultáveis do país. As gigantes da energia Total e Eni já estudam de biodiesel a partir do coco, palma e caroço de algodão, algo que pode modificar o controle sobre a terra no país por corporações.
LDPI working paper series: International conference on global land grabbing - Bogota, Colombia
- Agrarian Conversations
- 17 April 2024
This LDPI Working Paper Series includes work in progress presented at the 2024 Global Land Grabbing Conference in Bogotá, addressing urgent challenges related to land, water, and natural resource grabbing.
Tanzania’s richest man wants to be Africa’s biggest farmer — If everyone gets out of his way
- Forbes
- 16 Mar 2024
Globe-trotting billionaire Mo Dewji made a fortune in East Africa selling palm oil, rope, and soda. Now he says he's trying to acquire 100,000 ha in Rufiji and another part of Tanzania for sugarcane and cereal plantations.
Rubber tree monoculture plantations in communal territories in Mabu, Mozambique: Concession of injustices
- JA! & WRM
- 30 Mar 2023
The tentacles of India-based Mozambique Holdings Ltd reached the locality of Mabu in 2013, when it acquired a 10,000-hectare land concession from the old tea company Madal SARL.
Natural resources, land grabbing and resistance in Africa. With PLAAS
- CORA
- 21 September 2022
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Tanzanian entrepreneur Dewji plans $2-4bln grains production investment via SPAC
- Reuters
- 09 June 2022
Dewji, owner of the MeTL Group, said the new company will produce grains and edible oils in Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and the Central African Republic
Large-scale land acquisitions in Africa: is bigger really better?
- Salaam Gateway
- 13 April 2022
A new study suggests the effects of large-scale land acquisitions are detrimental to food security and the livelihood of smallholder farmers.
Camponeses “sem terra” queixam se de fome em Namariessa
- JA!
- 31 Mar 2022
Os camponeses da zona de Namariessa, comunidade de Namale, distrito de Ribaué, na província de Nampula, a Moçambique, queixam-se de estar a viver momentos muito difíceis por terem supostamente cedido as suas terras à empresa Promo Comercial.
Friends of the Earth Africa documentary on industrial plantation impacts on women
- FoE Africa
- 28 December 2021
New FoEAfrica documentary shows the impacts of industrial plantation expansion on women in Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Mozambique