Forestry plantations can potentially foster rural development and mitigate environmental threats, but their impacts on neighbouring peoples’ livelihood strategies are ambiguous. Forestry plantations are particularly important in Mozambique, where a…
This State of Land Information (SOLI) report from the Land Portal assesses the state of land data in Mozambique against principles of land data openness, land information availability and accessibility,…
This short policy brief from USAID highlights some achievements for women’s land rights from the USAID-funded Mapping Approaches for Securing Tenure (MAST) programme’s activities in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. A…
Destaque Rural is a series produced by the Mozambican NGO Observatorio do Meio Rural (Rural Environment Observatory). This paper looks at the return of displaced people in the northern province…
This report covers a meeting held in Maputo in January 2023 to discuss the status of women’s land rights in Mozambique, and the role of women in the recent dialogue…
This is an important and highly recommended article in an era of advancing climate change. It sees land expropriation as a ‘hidden danger of the response to climate change’, with…
This guidebook comprises a collection of practices and strategies used by civil society organisations around the world working to advance inclusive land governance. The aim is to provide a source…
Covers: land law revision; President starts land law consultation – with battle over privatisation expected; contradictions put a progressive land law under pressure. By 2018 the Norwegian company Green Resources’…
Focuses on innovations in recognition, mapping and documentation of legitimate tenure rights by LEGEND and other pilot projects to address problems that resulted from weak due diligence in the planning…
Focuses on adjustments to investment plans and more inclusive approaches to business that engage local communities and small-scale farmers that were adopted by the companies involved in pilot projects. Includes…