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.
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.
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.
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.
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Au Mozambique, un méga projet menace de déplacer des millions de paysans
Mega projeto brasileiro poderá deslocar milhões de camponeses em Moçambique.
A Brazilian megaproject in Mozambique is set to displace millions of peasants
El gobierno brasileño y el sector privado están colaborando con Japón para llevar a cabo un proyecto de agricultura en gran escala en el norte de Mozambique. El proyecto, llamado ProSavana, dispondrá de 14 millones de hectáreas de tierra para empresas brasileñas del agronegocio.
A estratégia para o desenvolvimento do “Corredor de Nacala” passa pela promoção de investimentos para o sector da agricultura de modo a garantir a coexistência de grandes plantações e a agricultura de pequena escala, através do estabelecimento de um mecanismo de mútuo apoio.
These documents from 2012 include the "Triangular Work Plan" and reports for the "Agricultural Development Master Plan"
Amid warnings that land deals are undermining food security, the head of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has compared "land grabs" in Africa to the "wild west", saying a "sheriff" is needed to restore the rule of law.
On October 9th 2012, the Finnish solidary network Kepa held a discussion on the effects of large-scale land investments or "land grabs" in the Global South.