ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank the following people and organizations for their assistance with this
project. We thank His Excellency, Alexander Zandamela, Minister of Agriculture; Felix
Mandlate, President of the Institute of Rural Development; Joao Z. Carrilho, former Director
of the Ad Hoc Land Commission; and Virgilio Ferrao, Director of the Land Commission.
We also thank the many people with the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of State
Administration, Ministry of Cooperation, Ministry of Mineral Resources, and the National
Directorate of Geography and Cadastre (DINAGECA) who assisted this project, as well as
the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) which funded it.
We thank the staff of the Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
especially the assistance of Teresa Barry, Patty Grubb, Mike McCallister, and Steven G.
Smith. We acknowledge the assistance of our editors, Beverly Phillips and Jane Dennis, also
of the Land Tenure Center. We thank Harry West, Fulbright Scholar, for his assistance in
directing the field investigation in Inhambane Province. We also thank Anna Storkson of
AnnaGraphics, Madison, Wisconsin, for the production of the maps and graphics in this
document.
We thank the staff of the LTC/MOA Collaborative Research Project in Mozambique, and
our translators, Maria-Luisa Natividade, Antonio Natividade, and Jenifer Garvey. We would
like to thank the representatives of the nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) who
occasionally assisted us in the field. These NGOs include World Vision International, Food
for the Hungry International, Medecins Sans Frontieres, and World Lutheran Federation.
And finally, we acknowledge the immense assistance of the many officials (both formal
and customary), farmers (women and men), and other private individuals who gave us their
time to answer our questions and clarify our understanding of land access and tenure security
in Mozambique.
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