Africa NOW #99
Issued on October 31, 2013 by Africa Japan Forum (AJF)«Contents»
Special Topic: ProSAVANA-JBM, problems found through the field survey
pp.2-19“Triangular Cooperation for Agricultural Development of the Tropical Savannah in Mozambique, namely,
ProSAVANA-JBM”, was signed jointly by the governments of Japan, Brazil, and Mozambique in 2009. From then, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) sent their staff members with Portuguese literacy to Mozambique, who made a preparatory survey, had meetings with Brazilian colleagues and made arrangements with Mozambican officials. Until last summer,
JICA prepared the ground for successful ProSAVANA-JBM implementation at least in Japan. But on 11th Oct. 2012, TheMozambican National Peasants Union (UNAC) issued the Statement on ProSAVANA and the things started to go differently.
This issue of “Africa NOW” gives you the statement of UNAC, the Mozambican civil society’s Open letter to top officials ofJapan, Brazil and Mozambique, and the Japanese civil society statement on ProSAVANA.

“Testimonies to problems of ProSAVANA-JBM” by FUNADA CLASSEN Sayaka,
WATANABE Naoko, MORISHITA Maiko, AKIMOTO Yoko, TAKAHASHI Kiyotaka
pp.4-9From late July to mid-August, 6 Japanese researchers and NGO staff, went to Mozambique to participate in a civil society meeting held by Mozambican CSOs and to make a survey in the planned areas for ProSAVANA programme. They
heard the Agriculture Minister making a promise of implementing the ProSAVANA programme for small-scale farmers at
Maputo. On the other hand, in the planned areas they saw that vast farmlands were already grabbed by some big firms andsome elements of the ProSAVANA programme had been implementing for large and middle scale farmers. Here are theirtestimonies.
pp.10-11 “Japanese civil society statement on ProSAVANA-JBM” in Japanese
pp.12-13 “Japanese civil society statement on ProSAVANA-JBM” in English
pp.14-15 “The open letter handed to Prime Minister Abe from the people of Mozam-bique” by MORISHITA Maiko
Ms. Morishita asks you, “Do you like soybeans products? If so, you should take care of the Japanese ODA programme inMozambique for soybean production for Japan not for food unsecured Mozambicans.”
pp.16-18 “Open letter demanding urgent suspension of ProSAVANA-JBM”
pp.18-19 “UNAC statement on ProSAVANA-JBM”“Forgiveness and reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda: Case of the GACACA Courts” by KATAYAMA Natsuki
pp.20-23

Ms. Katayama, a candidate of PhD studying at Tokyo University, has been visiting Rwanda since her sophomore year at
Osaka University of Foreign Studies and has many friends in Rwanda. After finishing a thesis on peace-building policies inpost-war Rwanda, she started to study forgiveness and reconciliation among people. She focused on people affected by theGACACA Courts and getting support from friends and others had a series of interviews at 4 rural villages last summer. She
writes for this issue of “Africa NOW”, why she was interested in Rwandan issues, how she has been studying, and what she
grasps from her experiences in Rwanda.

4th cover To readers (“Hitotsu no musubime toshite” in Japanese) and Daily Information fromthe secretariat of AJF to readers.

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