[PDF] Agricultural Investments In Mozambique An Analysis Of Investment Trends Business Models And Social And Environmental Conduct eBook

Author : Filipe Di Matteo
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2016-04-18
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The recent influx of agricultural investment to Africa is increasingly equated with land grabbing by investors from emerging and Northern economies seeking to produce commodities to serve the needs of their own food and energy markets. This paper reflects on this discourse by unpacking agricultural investments in Mozambique – one of the largest recipients of agricultural investment in Africa. By drawing on official investment data and structured interviews conducted with 69 agricultural investors in Mozambique, this paper analyzes agricultural investment trends, characteristics and the factors that shape investors’ social and environmental conduct. It illustrates that, contrary to popular depiction, regional investors, domestic food end-markets, and private finance are the primary drivers of investment. Moreover, this paper shows that investors differ significantly in the types of strategies, business models and practices they adopt. The findings highlight a lack of nuance in the global agricultural investment discourse and the need for more evidence-based policy intervention in order to adequately leverage the potential of agricultural investments to contribute to inclusive green growth.

Author : Finn Tarp
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0896291316

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This study responds to some of Mozambique's basic development challenges and provides qualitative and quantitative insights for policymaking from an economywide perspective. The report highlights the importance of agricultural development showing agriculture's large sectoral multiplier effects and that applying scarce capital to agriculture is generally more effective than applying it to industry and services. A novel CGE model is developed and used in a series of analyses focused on the impact and design of economic policy. Issues addressed are aid dependency, biases in price incentives facing the agriculture sector, improvement in agricultural technology and marketing margins, risk-reducing behavior and gender roles in agricultural production, and food aid distribution. The study also provides a future perspective and analyzes the Mozambican economy using dynamic macroeconomic modeling techniques, demonstrating that sophisticated analytical tools can be of significant value, even in "data-poor" situations.

Author : IBP USA
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1438768281

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Mozambique Investment and Business Guide - Strategic and Practical Information

Author : Eduardo Chiziane
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 2015-11-05
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The International Development Law Organization (IDLO) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) assessed the legal frameworks that govern land-use activities and investments in Mozambique. Mozambique’s legal framework for environmental management is well developed, and recent legal reforms have strengthened key public interest safeguards. Similarly, the country has established a comprehensive framework for investment through the Investment Law and Investment Promotion Centre (CPI), and enshrined in the Land Law the right to the use and benefit of land (DUAT). The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process places public consultation at the heart of effective environmental management. It extends participation to a broad spectrum of stakeholders at an early stage, allowing, in theory, substantial influence over the design and implementation of the EIA process. The National Council for Sustainable Development (CONDES) and the Ministry for Environmental Coordination (MICOA) have not managed, however, to influence high level government policy decisions and push convincingly for a sustainable development agenda.

Author : Randall Bluffstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1617260916

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First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ms.Doris C. Ross
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 149832021X

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This publication highlights Mozambique’s remarkably strong growth over the two decades since the end of the civil war in 1992, as well as the major challenges that remain for the country to rise out of poverty and further its economic development. Chapters explore such topics as the role of megaprojects and their relationship to jobs and growth; infrastructure and public investment; Mozambique's quest for inclusive growth; developing the agricultural sector; and building a social protection floor.

Author : Fison Mujenja
Publisher : Anchor Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9781843698975

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Agricultural investments involving the acquisition of long-term rights over large areas of land in developing countries have been the focus of much debate in recent years. Many have welcomed the renewed momentum for private investment in agriculture, but trends towards large-scale land acquisitions raise major social, economic and environmental concerns. While calls for more inclusive investment models have multiplied, there is limited understanding of what works and under what conditions. For many recent agricultural investments, it is just too early to assess socio-economic outcomes. This report discusses two agricultural investments in Zambia. Both projects started as state-led, development-oriented initiatives in the 1970s and early 1980s, and were later privatised. This long implementation history provides an opportunity to assess the longer-term socio-economic outcomes of agricultural investments, and to distil insights on practical ways to include lower-income groups in investment processes.

Author : IBP. Inc. USA
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2015-09-11
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ISBN : 9781514529928

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Mozambique Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information

Author : Timothy A. Wise
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1620974231

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"A powerful polemic against agricultural technology." —Nature A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Most of the world, Wise reveals, is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow food. These same farmers—who already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countries—can show the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Wise takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices and nourishing a diversity of native crops without chemicals or imported seeds. They are growing more and healthier food; in the process, they are not just victims in the climate drama but protagonists who have much to teach us all.

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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Investments, Foreign
ISBN : 9789210556699

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Preface -- Abbreviations -- Executive summary -- FDI trends, impact and prospects -- The investment framework -- Investment strategy -- International corporate tax comparison -- Methodology of international corporate tax comparisons -- References