The Plantation Forestry Sector in Mozambique : Community Involvement and Jobs
Mozambique had 60,000 hectares of large-scale commercial planted forest in 2009, supporting about 3,000 full-time-equivalent jobs. Very little growth in large-scale commercial planted area has occurred since 2009, unlike what would be required to m...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/269431559132547929/The-Plantation-Forestry-Sector-in-Mozambique-Community-Involvement-and-Jobs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31753 |
| Summary: | Mozambique had 60,000 hectares of
large-scale commercial planted forest in 2009, supporting
about 3,000 full-time-equivalent jobs. Very little growth in
large-scale commercial planted area has occurred since 2009,
unlike what would be required to meet predictions at the
time of 1,000,000 hectares planted by 2030. Labor costs are
three to four times lower in plantation forestry in
Mozambique than in Brazil, South Africa, and Uganda. Yet,
unit costs per cubic meter of eucalyptus timber produced in
Mozambique are higher due to lower tree volume growth rates,
skills gaps, and employee absenteeism up to 50 percent. Yet,
deforestation and imports of high-end wood products are
rekindling interest in plantation forestry, with recognition
of the need for community involvement. Integration of
smaller-scale forestry into community land use patterns is
taking off. Recommended actions include: matching grants
financed by public resources to leverage private investment
and contract farming through community woodlots; empowerment
of an independent third-party organization funded by
companies to analyze, broker and communicate amongst
relevant stakeholders; private sector mobile agroforestry
schools for training in remote areas; community land-use
plans developed with local stakeholders, delimiting
different kinds of land and different rights; and
strengthening of community-based organizations that deal
with land. |
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