EXECUTIVE SUMMARY and the expansion of large-scale, market- The report calls for greater articulation oriented agriculture. However, as the between social movements – whether destruction of the cashew industry based in the home, the countryside, the illustrates, these conditions have had street corner, or the factory floor – in harmful effects. Recently, the World Bank order to build power against the tide of shifted its support towards smallholder expropriation, exploitation and exclusion and peasant farmers, through the adoption under late neoliberalism. It also calls for the of the Natural Resources Landscape revival of the global justice movement, so Management Project or Sustenta, hinged as to be able to hold international financial on the privatization and collateralization of institutions accountable. land. As the report concludes, the Covid-19 pandemic created an opportunity for the World Bank to fast-track financialization through loans and grants. This has led to the attempted expropriation of the Mozambican state and its people through the outsourcing of state functions and privatization of state assets. Nevertheless, moments of crisis create windows of opportunity to reorient policy and action towards the construction of a developmental state committed to a people-centred development model, and which prioritizes human development over market interests. 8 Fast-tracking Financialization - International Financial Institutions’ Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Mozambique