REPORT WITH THE RESULTS FROM THE BBN WORKSHOPS IN GURUE DISTRICT

Gurue District – Mozambique 10-11/2015

Pedro Zorrilla-Miras
01/12/2015

ACES PROJECT: LIVELIHOODS AND LAND USE CHANGE IN MOZAMBIQUE
WP 1 AND WP5

© University of Edinburgh

The method used followed always the “VillageWorkshops_Protocol_20150421” document. 
We did the workshops between the 31st of October and the 3rd of November of 2015. Each workshop took between 90 and 120 minutes. There were 8-9 participants in each, with between 2 and 4 women in each of them. We did the workshops in three villages of the Gurue District.

Nacupe (31/10/2015)

Notes taken during the workshop: 
In the village they have horticultural gardens, and sacred areas. 
Other WB components they talk about: dams, fishes, mosquito net and government offices. 
They think associations are important to work in the machamba at big scale. They want it to eat and to sell. 
Wild foods are important specially in hunger periods. 
They do not use organic matter from the forest as fertilizer for the crops. 
They talked about the problems to obtain DUATs. They would like to have DUATs. How could it be easier for them to obtain DUATs?They arrived here in 1933. Then they went away during the war and when it finished, they came back. They came back because there was forest and good land for farming. 
First, they had to go to Tetete to sell their products. Now, the road is better, and there is people coming to buy here. They sell their products to individual buyers, not to companies. 
They use the money to transport, school, materials and inputs for machambas, hospitals, food, water and seeds.
They do not sell firewood or charcoal. 
Type of crops they cultivate: mapira, soya, beans (different kinds), corn, sunflower, cotton, cassava, rice, gergelim, potatoes, sugar cane, bananas, mango, papaya, orange. 
They say roads are important for obtaining everything. They do not have waterhole, and neither hospital. 
They would like to have tractors for being able to have a big farm.
They need associations for development of the community. They do not have associations because they do not have good roads, so they can not get inputs, and can’t sell their products. They also say that they need dams to have water to irrigate horticultural gardens. They do not have cows, goats or horses. 
They say they would like to have government offices to have a better access to documents, administrative facilities. When they ask for things to the government, they do not receive anything. 
The INAS (Instituto Nacional de Accion Social).
They need money to buy farm tools, and fertilizers, pesticides and water pump, even the last 3 they do not have nor use. 

Natxoa (02/11/2015)

Notes taken during the workshop: 
They do not have sacred areas. They prefer a big machamba than a good quality machamba. Charcoal is not important for them. 
Other WB components they talk about: seeds, maize, credits, boots, cellular phone, adult education and alphabetization, hygiene, a place to obtain documents, fedulas, DUATs. 
They can not use tractors because they have big trunks in their machamabas, so the tractor could not go through it. 
They would like to have small dams, and systems for fish breeding.
They say that a goof village organization would be useful for everything.  
As actions to achieve a good soil fertility, they say they do not do any special thing, just to prepare the land each year. 
They sell mandioca, rice, tomato, batata, alface, corn, soya (no cotton and not tobacco).  
To obtain credits, they need documents (DUATs?). They ask for them, but they do not obtain them. 
They do not have cows or goats, because they would eat the crops. There are not big companies in this village. 
They have land limitation to open new machambas. 
They have a sacred forest that is a graveyard; they can not open machambas there. 
They have a forest in the boundary with other village, and they do charcoal there. 
Some of them have a DUAT. Those, they went to the Direccao distrital de agricultura, and eah year they have to pay. One woman have it since 4 years ago. It took her 2 years to legalize it. 
Some other even to not know that a DUAT is. 

Ncunue (03/11/2015)

Notes taken during the workshop: 
They do not have associations, but they need them. They need cows, and they do not have neither pigs. They have hens and goats. 
Other WB components they talk about: warehouse, electricity, mosquito nets, tractors, rainfall, radio, firewood, construction materials, family planning, extension services (important, but do not exist).
They sell charcoal. They do not eat cows. 
They have a graveyard but not a forest reserve. 
They sell honey. Wild foods are only for eating. 
They do not use fertilizers. They need credits to pay people to work on their lands. 
If they have to choose between extension services and credits, they prefer credits. 
Some of the villages have change their lands for that offered by HoyoHoyo. But the new land the company proved them is of worst quality and they de not receive money as compensation. It is worst because it gets flooded: they can cultivate rice and other crops, but not corn. The situation was better before the resettlement. Before they produced 60.000-40.000 soya (units??).
Some of the participants produce soya and some of them no. 
Innovagro and CLUSA worked with them before HoyoHoyo arrived there. The NGOs told them to use fertilizers, and they proved them seeds inoculated. They also could use pesticides (agaist “benzorro”). 
They want the DUAT in case the HH head dies, so the family can have the right to use it. If the government ask them about the land, then they will have more rights on them and the government will have to compensate them. 
They ask for help to obtain seeds, because last year, because of the rainfalls, they obtained less production and they do not have seeds to plant this year. Those that they need more are soya and corn. 
Most of them have small and dispersed machambas, that make 2-3 ha. 
-	One of the participants have a provisional DUAT (11.5 ha, he has to pay 74 MT each 3 months). To get it, the person had to go to Gurue, contact with the local leader. This person told us about his history: he was born on Maputo. In 1964 he worked in a mission,  after school). In 1970 he went to the industrial school, in Maputo. In 1974 he incorporated to the army. He was in Lisbon in 1976, 78 and 79. From 1978-80 he was the responsible of supply military regiment, with FRELIMO. Between 1982 and 1989, he was in the war. He is married with a Portuguese woman.  
Banco da Terra (South Africa), gives them credits, so they can use machinery for the seeding. 
InnovAgro helps them with s credit: 68,798.29 MT. They sign a contract for the multiplication of seeds. The NGO have extension officers. The NGO help them to obtain DUATs. They work with farmers that have 64 ha. They receive funds from Switzerland. 
Grupo DRITAS.
He has 5 sons, one of them is ingenier, and the others are studying: one in the Nampula university, one in Lichinga, one in Quelimane.