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and food insecurity, agriculture in the 21st
between key CSOs. The National Union of
century must produce more food and fibre
Peasants (UNAC) and the Observatório
to sustain the growing world population
do Meio Rural (OMR), argued for the
(FAO, 2009). Thus, according to them,
need to influence the programme from
‘traditional’ systems of land tenure that
within; while the Acção Académica para o
survived colonialism have to be dismantled
Desenvolvimento das Comunidades Rurais
and replaced by capitalist systems of land
(ADECRU), opted to boycott both Sustenta
ownership and utilisation.
and the national land policy review process.
Sustenta has been contested by a strong
segment of civil society in Mozambique,
who argue that it is a top-down
intervention, which civil society was only
invited to comment on after the fact.
However, not all civil society organizations
(CSOs) are opposed to the programme. At
a public event to discuss the programme
in August 2020, there was disagreement
Fórum Mulher, a feminist organization
working with rural women, denounced
the hierarchical top-down approach of
Sustenta and the National Land Policy
Review process, describing both as
inherently patriarchal. Under the leadership
of the Mozambican Association for
Sustainable Rural Development (AMDER),
a civil society process is underway to
influence the drafting of an agriculture
Figure 5: ILM
portfolio in
US$ million,
broken down
by fiscal year
of project.
Source TA
(2019)
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