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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....

A series of five “Reality Checks” will take place in the period 2011-2016, focussing on the dynamics of poverty and well-being with a particular focus on good governance, agriculture/climate and energy that are key sectors in Swedish development cooperation with Mozambique. Each Reality Check will be published in the form of one Annual Report and three Sub-Reports from each of the three selected study-sites (see ORGUTa 2011 for more details). More concretely, the “Reality Checks in...

This paper reviews competing theories about the causes of informality in developing countries and uses new data to determine which theory best explains the persistence and scale of Indonesia’s informal sector. Using nationally representative survey data on micro, small, and medium-sized firms, we find that most of Indonesia’s informal firms are very small, micro firms, with less than five employees. These firms pay low wages, are relatively unproductive when compared to large firms, are...

The Reality Checks are implemented 2011-2016 and each year field work is carried out in the Municipality of Cuamba, the District of Lago and the District of Majune in the Niassa Province. Each Reality Check focusses on a specific theme. This is the 5th Sub-Report from the District of Lago, focussing on quantitative expressions of changes in poverty and wellbeing and the role of public institutions since the 1st Reality Check in 2011. An Annual Report is produced each year to summarise the...

1. What is JICA? Since joining the Colombo plan in 1954, Japan has been providing financial and technical assistance to developing countries through ODA (Official Development Assistance). JICA is the "one stop shop of Japan's bilateral ODA'', providing Technical Cooperation, ODA Loans (Concessional Loans) and Grant Aid. JICA has a network of more than 90 overseas offices. In Mozambique, JICA opened office in 2003. 3. Priority Areas in Mozambique: 1) Activation of Regional and Local...

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...

The government of Mozambique remains confident that its mining boom is set to accelerate in the coming years, despite weak sentiment in the global mining industry. Rising coal production and an eventual rebound in global prices will spur some growth in Mozambique's mining sector in 2016‑20 but we expect that, weighed down by infrastructure deficits and non-competitive policies, it will remain a relatively small contributor to GDP growth. Mozambique has untapped coal reserves estimated to...

This paper discusses South–South cooperation by examining ProSAVANA, a flagship agricultural development program seeking to apply Brazilian experience to Mozambique. ProSAVANA is a joint Japan–Brazil–Mozambique initiative in the savannah zone of Mozambique’s Nacala Corridor region that was initially inspired by the Japan–Brazil PRODECER program in Brazil’s Cerrado region. ProSAVANA subsequently became the focus of fears about land-grabbing in the Nacala Corridor, attracting strong civil...

This report relates to urbanisation as it is currently happening in Mozambique. It explores the present situation of cities and the government’s planned urbanisation strategy. It also discusses how the country plans to transition to a majority urban population. The report also discusses the impact of the urbanisation strategy on the regional development of the country through the promotion of growth corridors. To discuss this message, Future Cities Africa has selected three cities along the...

When residents of Chimoio and Honde talk of the forceful and potentially perilous dimensions of spirits, healing, and illness, they frequently relate them to <i>tchianhu wo atewe.</i> Spirits, which embody various potencies and capacities, are integral to diurnal and nocturnal lives in urban and rural contexts alike. As shown previously, a wide range of spirits exhibit dynamics of re-/deterritorialization. Further, people relate to ancestral spirits, so-called <i>vadzimu,</i> in annual...

Ethnography harbors the power of critique—political, social, and theoretical. Ultimately a capacity to destabilize, this orientation also applies when writing an account of the violence inherent to processes of state formation in Mozambique. While such critical potential may be realized in a number of ways, here I have privileged perspectives forged on the margins of the centers of power, supplemented by historical sources. But there is more to it than this: by privileging a decentering of...

In <i>After Kinship</i> (2004), Janet Carsten employs “substance” to delineate important dimensions of classical understandings of kinship and personhood. She does so by reinterpreting Schneider’s (1980) studies on American kinship and revisiting Marilyn Strathern’s (1988) analyses of Trobriand kinship and in/dividuality. Based on these reinterpretations and, more generally, extensive comparisons between Indian, Melanesian, British, and American cases, Carsten specifically recontextualizes...

Since the General Peace Agreement was signed in 1992 the legal, administrative, and political sectors of Mozambique have undergone multiple reforms that have exposed the complexity of its historical trajectories of law, violence, and authority. From the perspective of those living in the impoverished and frequently dangerous and violent urban and peri-ur-ban <i>bairros,</i> a great variety of agencies and authorities can be approached at times of difficulty or trouble. These range from...

Why does the Mozambican state attempt to control <i>uroi</i> —a force that is seemingly incompatible with the state rationale of both the postindependence Afro-Marxist era as well as the post–civil war period of neoliberal democracy? This chapter will broach this question through untangling the problematic relations between spirit and state within the context of AMETRAMO <i>(Associação da Medicina Tradicional de Moçambique</i> —the Association for Traditional Medicine in Mozambique), a...

This vision of sovereign power hovering above the relations between natural and human elements is relevant beyond genealogical analyses of biopower, pastoral power, and govenmentality. If we go beyond Foucault’s near exclusive context and subject of enquiry, Europe, these relations move to the forefront of social and political life. In Honde, crucial interconnections between polities of chiefly rule and traditional authority, cosmologies of land and the well-being of its inhabitants, and...

What does the notion of territory entail for state formation? As Elden (2013) has made clear in his recent genealogy of territory, it may be seen as a spatial extension of state power. While Elden’s point is crucial, in this chapter I will entertain the idea that the colonial state form is not different in its key dynamics from later state forms, as well as certain African polities, and in this way the chapter challenges the idea of the colonial state as radically different from earlier or...

How is one to make sense of state formation as a predominantly violent process? More concretely, how is one, as an anthropologist, to understand one’s interlocutors’ repeated insistence on life being a sustained period of suffering ( <i>sofrimento</i> )? One point at which to start is with the most recent large-scale period of violence, namely the Mozambican civil war (1976–92). During this phase of violent upheaval, the traditional field was implicated in complex ways and its reality as a...

This article aims to analyse and explain the reasons behind the CSOs’ strong criticism of the ProSavana programme. This will contribute toward: (1) understanding the role of Mozambican CSOs as actors regulating international development cooperation projects; (2) revealing the political and economic interests behind ProSavana, as a first step toward a more critical approach to trilateral cooperation; and (3) illustrating through this case how a partnership between Brazil and “traditional”...

Recommendations: 1. On planning and budgeting, greater coordination is recommended between planning (setting priorities) and budgeting (financial apportionment). Transformation of all District Health Services, Women and Social Action (SDSMAS) into Management Beneficiary Units (MBU) is necessary. 2. Stakeholders should bet more on application of national public financial management systems (PFM). The use of parallel financial systems instead of enabling the National Health System (NHS) to be...

Tema: Estrutura Geológica de Moçambique A estrutura geológica de Moçambique é resultado da interacção de vários processos, sobretudo os endógenos (internos) e exógenos (externos), que se fizeram sentir e ainda sentem-se na actual região da África Austral, onde Moçambique faz parte. Do ponto de vista geológico, Moçambique apresenta duas grandes unidades geológicas: Pré-câmbrico Fanerozóico