...More than half a million people living in communities along the banks of the Lúrio River in...Mozambique will be severely affected if the country's Council of Ministers approves the Lúrio River Valley Development Project...in the  controversial Nacala Corridor...more than 100,000...will lose their homes and land...The project has a budget of 4.2 billion U.S. Dollars for agricultural development and the construction of hydro-electric infrastructure on the Lúrio River...Mozambique's Land Act confers the power to grant areas greater than 10,000 hectares on the Council of Ministers, provided that local land use is taken into account...[T]hese powers have been abused, resulting in the approval of projects with severe impacts on the lives of thousands of Mozambicans...[The project]...will be implemented by the Companhia do Vale do Rio Lúrio...managed by a consortium made up of TurConsult and Agricane...None of...[the affected]...communities were consulted or informed about the project. ADECRU...[Academic Action for the Development of Rural Communities]...and GRAIN publicly denounce and repudiate the...Project...[and]...demand that Mozambique's Council of Ministers vote against the project because of the destructive impact that it will have on biodiversity.