The Dutch Development Organisation (SNV) is going to start implementing the so-called Responsible Land Investment. The idea is to realise two historically difficult to reconcile objectives: secure access to land and productivity. Hilário Sitoe, from SNV, explains how they intend to get there.

With a predicted duration of four years and a cost of 800 thousand euros (more than 53 million meticais), the project, recently launched, will still have to bring together the main interested parties, namely the Government, the communities and the business community to outline forms of action.

SNV intends, basically, to fill the gaps that prevent the country from transforming land into an asset for development, at a time when its policy and strategy are under review, and with a very poor consultation process.

According to Hilario Sitoe, leader of the agriculture sector at SNV, besides this entity, the project is managed by a consortium made up of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Land Equity International (LEI), the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) and the World Agroforestry (ICRAF), and has financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).