Govt Designs Strategies to Curb Deforestation
Maputo — The Mozambican government and its partners are looking at the current level of deforestation and at new strategies to reverse the trend.
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How is REDD+ unfolding in southern Africa’s dry forests?
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Forestry Key to Africa’s Carbon Permit Market, Envirotrade Says
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Forestry Acquisition, MozambiqueObtala Resources Limited (AIM:OBT), the natural resource investment and development company, today announces that it has concluded a Share Purchase Agreement (”SPA”) to acquire a private Mozambique registered company (”Acquisition”).
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Portucel Soporcel Group Pursues Forestry Venture In Mozambique And Builds Up Sales PresencePortugal, Aug 31, 2011, The Portucel Soporcel is exhibiting again at the 47th Maputo International Trade Fair
(FACIM), the largest trade event with an international dimension in Mozambique.
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A new opportunity for land grabbers?Land is cheap and is perceived to be abundant in Africa. A scramble for Africa’s land, following the food and fuel crisis three years ago, is on.
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USAID Research and Analysis of Carbon Rights and Institutional Mechanisms for REDD+ Benefit DistributionWhile a number of researchers and organizations in the US and internationally have highlighted the potential impacts of mitigation efforts on tenure, there remains minimal information and best practice on how to practically address these issues at the field level.
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Carbon Plantations in Mozambique: Livelihoods, Development, and Local LegitimacyThe Norwegian forestry company Green Resources (GR) is one of several commercial actors that have started planting forests in Africa, aiming to reduce global CO2 emissions and join the international emissions trade market.
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Mozambique's new forests may not be as green as they seemMAPUTO — Foreign companies are spending billions of dollars to plant forests in Mozambique, but conservationists fear the investments aren't as good for the environment as they might initially seem.
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The false solutions of Rio+20As evening falls, Albertina Francisco*, a farmer from the Nhambita community in Sofala province, Mozambique, returns home. She is tired after another day of work at her machamba (a term used in Mozambique to refer to a patch of farmland).
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Mozambique resists external pressures and drafts own REDD+ strategy Mozambique has taken a “remarkable” approach to reducing deforestation, engaging local communities and other stakeholders that will be most directly affected and drafting its own forest conservation strategy rather than relying on external consultants.
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Understanding carbon loss and potential interventions in Manica Understanding how land use and its changes affect forest cover and carbon stocks is fundamental to developing
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