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Falando em representação da Governadora da Província de Gaza, a Directora Provincial de Cultura e Turismo denunciou o velho problema de usurpação e acumulação de terra para fins de especulação latifundiária. Trata-se de uma prática comum em Moçambique em que as elites económicas e políticas se apropriam de terras valiosas e ficam à espera do melhor momento para fazer a transacção, preferencialmente com o capital estrangeiro. A representante da Governadora de Gaza disse que esta prática...

Depois da cerimónia inaugural de quinta-feira na Província de Gaza, ontem, sexta-feira, 07 de Maio, foi a vez de Inhambane acolher o debate público no âmbito da auscultação de jovens sobre a revisão da Política Nacional de Terras. Falando na abertura da cerimónia, o Director dos Serviços Provinciais do Ambiente, em representação da Secretária de Estado da Província de Inhambane, defendeu que um dos desafios que a Inhambane enfrenta é o aumento do número de população perante um recurso terra...

No âmbito do processo de Revisão da Política Nacional de Terras e para responder aos consensus alcançados na IX Sessão do Forum de Consulta sobre as Terras (FCT) que incluiam a viabilização da transmissibilidade dos títulos de uso e aproveitamento da terra (DUAT) tornando este processo mais flexível, foi encomendado o presente estudo que tem como objectivo aferir, dentro do actual quadro legal, a viabilidade, sob o ponto de vista de oferta e da procura, da possibilidade de se implementar um...

O objectivo deste manual é auxiliar os municípios no contexto da gestão de terra, com especial foco na regularização do DUAT (Direito de Uso e Aproveitamento da Terra) e respectivas construções. O manual pretende abranger o maior número de situações que ocorrem no dia-a-dia, apresentando soluções apoiadas na presente legislação. Pretende-se que o manual seja um valioso material de apoio à capacitação das equipas técnicas dos municípios e áreas urbanas. O objectivo do manual é igualmente...

The main objective of the Land at Scale Program is to increase community legal awareness and strengthen security of land tenure rights, creating capacity at local level to implement and leverage the progressive provisions of the Mozambican legal framework. The programme will contribute to community preparation to intervene in an informed manner in the land sector and will also contribute to the delimitation of community and individual land-use rights based on good faith occupation and...

Proposed Development Objective(s) Parent The project development objective is to integrate rural households into sustainable agriculture and forest-based value chains in the Project area and, in the event of an Eligible Crisis or Emergency, to provide immediate and effective response to said Eligible Crisis or Emergency. Components Agriculture and Forest-Based Value Chain Development Securing Land Tenure Rights and Increasing Natural Resources Resilience Project Coordination and Management Contingency Emergency Response

In northern Mozambique, villagers were promised jobs to replace land taken for forestry. Five years later, they’re still waiting, discovers Nils Adler.

This paper analyses inclusive land governance in Mozambique. It focuses on the country’s legal framework and the DUAT, the right to use and benefit from the land. The DUAT is a distinctive element of the Mozambican legislation that has land as the property of the state but recognises land use rights for occupants and users on the basis of a unitary system of tenure. The challenges of putting in practice what is thought to be one of Africa’s most progressive legal frameworks are discussed....

East Africa has experienced an increase of private land use investments in the past years. Rural households have consequently faced crucial changes in their livelihoods. This paper explores the socio-economic impacts of industrial forest plantations on rural communities in Niassa, Mozambique. According to our results private forest plantations have the potential to positively impact local people’s wealth and well-being, if enough emphasis is given to minimizing the negative impacts. The...

This working paper examines the limitations of international and national law to address displacement and dispossession from land grabs within the case study of Mozambique. The main question that I seek to answer is: What limits international and national law in addressing displacement and dispossession due to land grabs in Mozambique? I will argue that the limits of law to address displacement and dispossession are not due to a lack of institutionalising international good governance norms...

Em 2009, o Centro Terra Viva (CTV) publicou o Guião de Consultas Comunitárias, como parte do seu esforço em melhorar a aplicação da legislação sobre terras e outros recursos naturais. O guião resultou de várias pesquisas de campo realizadas pelo CTV e outras organizações que trabalham na área de Terras. No entanto, a aprovação do Decreto n° 43/2012 de 10 de Outubro, seguida do Diploma Ministerial n° 158/2011 de 15 de Junho, uma parte significativa do Guião ficou ultrapassada. Por outro...

This case study has been produced in response to a request made to the Evidence on Demand Helpdesk. The objective of the request was to provide a detailed case study on the evolution of land policy in Mozambique and provide the reader with insights into what is viewed as one of Africa’s most progressive land laws, recognising multiple forms of tenure. Mozambique has experienced accelerated rates of growth over the past decade, averaging 7.2% per year, with projected growth rates of over 8%....

Communities are scrambling to protect their lands from the tree plantations multiplying across Mozambique.

The way in which informal land transactions occur and the extent to which they result in tenure security and asset creation in these informal settlements is not well understood. For this reason this study comprises research into two informal settlements (namely Matundo and Mateus Sansão Muthemba [Sansão Muthemba]) in Tete, Mozambique, so as to understand how the poor access, hold and trade land. This research forms part of a larger research programme being undertaken by Urban LandMark...

This report is based on information collected within the context of the study concerning Community Land Rights in Niassa Province in Mozambique, with special attention paid to the programme implemented by the Malonda Foundation. This programme is supported and financed by the Swedish Government and aims to promote private investment in the province while seeking, during the course of the process, to ensure equitable and beneficial social impact as an explicit objective, in particular for the local population.

The objective of this study is to examine how the extensive institutional change of reforms to policy and legislation in Mozambique over the past decade has affected evolutions at the local level in the governance of natural resources. The particular focus of the research is an analysis of a community based natural resource management (CBNRM) initiative in North Sanga District of Niassa Province and a longitudinal study of its development between 1999 and 2007 based on my involvement as both...

This is an update of the previous Gender Profi le for Mozambique which was produced in 2000. Sida produces gender profi les for several countries with the purpose of providing a short and concise summary of the gender equality situation in partner countries. The profi e is a desk study reviewing and compiling available statistical material that may be of interest to anyone interested in women’s social, economic and legal position and understanding gender relations in Mozambique. The human...