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Mozambique’s legal framework for access to natural resources

The impact of new legal rights and community consultations on local livelihoods

Year of publication 2006

Pages 42 p.

Author Tanner, C.;Baleira, S.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Category Working paper

Series title LSP Working Paper

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This paper represents part of an area of work which analyses access to natural resources in Mozambique. An initial paper examined the extent to which Mozambique’s recent regulatory changes to natural resource access and management have had their intended effects (LSP Working Paper 17: Norfolk, S. (2004). “Examining access to natural resources and linkages to sustainable livelihoods: a case study of Mozambique”). This paper is complemented by LSP Working Paper 27: Tanner et al. (2006). “Making ri ghts a reality: Participation in practice and lessons learned in Mozambique”. This report looks at one of the most important practical aspects of local participation in the Land Law and other natural resources legislation: the community consultation, through which outsiders – the State, new investors, timber companies, hotel groups – gain access to local land and resources with the approval of local people. In the consultation, the community is asked if the land required by the investor is occup ied or not.

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