THE CONTESTED INFLUENCE OF IFI’S OVER LAND AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY The Alliance calls for support to and the to ProSAVANA, a large-scale agricultural empowerment of smallholder farmers, programme that was stopped after nearly the largest segment of Mozambique’s a decade of campaigning by civil society population, to increase their productivity organisations, many of which are vocal through methods and practises that do not at the current time when international threaten public health, the environment and financial institutions are exploiting the biodiversity. This goes against the wishes crisis and fragility of the Mozambican of the international financial institutions, state to advance financialization and which prioritise commodification and neoliberalism through both social financialization at all costs. protection and agricultural programmes. ​​These positions and demands are being put forward more loudly by civil society at this moment of pandemic crisis. These are not new demands and positions. They are part of a longstanding struggle, perhaps most recently expressed in resistance Figure 6: Photo published on the Facebook page of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Celso Correia, on December 15, 2020, with the title ‘Campos do Sustenta/Sustenta fields’. 31 Fast-tracking Financialization - International Financial Institutions’ Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Mozambique