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Article

16 Mar 2016

Author:
Simone Adler, Truth Out

Mozambique: Justiça Ambiental raises concerns about impacts of ProSavana project on communities' land rights & livelihoods

“Mozambique's movement to end land grabs: interview with Anabela Lemos”, 2 March 2016

...In Mozambique, where 80% of the population is campesinos...companies are taking the...most fertile land and moving people to land that can't grow anything...When a foreign company wants to extract..., the government grants them the rights, claiming ownership of whatever is beneath the ground. Legally, these extractive projects need to be accepted by the communities, but the legal system doesn't work properly...Every time a corporation takes land from a campesino farmer, it leads to poverty...In the Nacala Corridor...the government offered free land to an agribusiness [venture] from Brazil, Japan and Mozambique. Known as ProSavana, the monoculture project would export soy and other cash crops to Japan. [The four million] campesino farmers in the Nacala Corridor would face massive land grabs. No information was given to Mozambicans; we only found out through international civil society organizations...

[It refers to Dupont, Monsanto and Syngenta]