"What is a house without food?" : Mozambique's coal mining boom and resettlements / Nisha Varia, Human Rights Watch.

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"This 122-page report examines how serious shortcomings in government policy and mining companies' implementation uprooted largely self-sufficient farming communities and resettled them to arid land far from rivers and markets. These communities have experienced periods of food insecurity or, when a...

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Main Author: Varia, Nisha (Author)
Corporate Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization) (Author, Issuing body)
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Human Rights Watch, [2013]
Subjects:
Food security > Mozambique.
Water security > Mozambique.
Forced migration > Mozambique.
Coal trade > Mozambique.
Physical Description:4 unnumbered pages, ii, 122 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Also issued online.
Variant Title:
Mozambique's coal mining boom and resettlements.
Mozambique, "what is a house without food?" [Spine title]
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Map 1: Tete Province, Mozambique
  • Map 2: Sites of original resettled villages in Tete Province
  • Summary and recommendations
  • Methodology
  • Mozambique and foreign investment
  • Coal mining and resettlement of local communities
  • Problems with the Vale and Rio Tinto resettlements
  • Flaws in the pre-resettlement process
  • Government and company responses
  • Jindal Steel and Power Limited's resettlement
  • National and international standards
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendices.