04 the trigger for the national movement to UNAC was also part of the Mozambican defend the interests of the peasantry5. Civil Society Alliance C-19, formed by more UNAC has been instrumental in influencing land policy in Mozambique. As in the past, UNAC and other agrarian civil society organizations are engaged in the current process of revising the national land policy. There is concern that if nothing is done, the land policy could become hostile to the peasantry and small-scale food producers. Indeed, there is a feeling in civil society that the IFIs could be influencing the process to push through even more neoliberal agrarian reforms. According to a leader of an agrarian civil society organization: As we understand it, this agenda [of revising the national land policy] is being advanced by the World Bank, the IMF and USAID to push for deep reforms in the agrarian sector in order to boost business driven agricultural activities. This will galvanize the emergence of latifundia class in Mozambique. This agenda is supported by a segment of the local private sector which has access to the national land policy review committee. Recommending a study on land than 50 civil society organisations from different sectors in the early 2020s. The Alliance developed a set of demands and launched a campaign to help build an active and inclusive citizenry in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and the state of emergency declared in Mozambique. The Alliance felt that the Mozambican government could use the state of emergency to make changes and introduce policies. In relation to agriculture, the alliance called for the following: prohibit the liberalization of genetically modified seeds under the pretext of combating hunger and product shortages, as this poses a serious threat to our biodiversity and our economic and food sovereignty, both in normal times and in times of crisis, as does the implementation of agricultural support programs based on the promotion of fertilizers and chemical fertilizers, which would jeopardize soil fertility, biodiversity and peasant farming (Aliança C-19, 2020). collateralization indicates that there are forces in favour of collateralization in the committee6. 5 Ismael Ossemane, interview, Maputo, March 2017, also cited in Monjane and Bruna, 2019, 14. 6 Interview, Abel Sainda, ORAM, March 2021. 30 Fast-tracking Financialization - International Financial Institutions’ Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Mozambique