In 2013, New Internationalist travelled to Mozambique to meet communities pushing back against expanding forestry plantations. Five years on, Nils Adler finds foreign companies have yet to deliver on promises to local farmers.
Meet the non-profit art group trying to end violence against women in Mozambique. By Rebecca Cooke.
Rebecca Cooke meets young women in Mozambique who are defying the odds and resisting child marriage.
As reserves dwindle and demand balloons, resource companies are pushing into more remote regions and onto indigenous land. Jen Wilton tours seven hotspots where native people are demanding the right to decide what happens on their ancestral territory.
The land rush started back in 2008. It has not gone unnoticed – or unchallenged.
Forestry companies want to carve up Mozambique’s northern highlands. Peasant farmers and their allies are working to hold them accountable. Hazel Healy investigates.
With proceeds from hydrocarbons set to roll in, Mozambique has a unique opportunity to reverse the fortunes of its smallholders. Land activist Diamantino Nhampossa makes the case.
A visit to Mozambique dispels any notion that big business is going to ‘feed Africa’. Hazel Healy reports on a land rush in full swing.
An estimated 73 million sharks are slaughtered every year for their fins, with 110 species now facing extinction, reports Claire C.
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Men tackle domestic violence | What's left for the young? | January, 2018 |
A second chance | Populism rises again | April, 2017 |
Life-saving rats | Global banking now | May, 2015 |
Touch the earth | Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth | March, 2014 |
Securing the global commons | Land grabs | May, 2013 |
Cazizi village holds its ground | Land grabs | May, 2013 |
Invest in small farmers | Land grabs | May, 2013 |
The smallholders’ last stand | Land grabs | May, 2013 |
Dying for a soup | Nature's defenders | October, 2011 |
Helen Gray | Terror takeover | November, 2009 |