Mozambique

Hierarchies of Rights: Land and Investments in Africa

Research project The main aim of the research program is to analyse how struggles related to large-scale investments into natural resources affect small-holders’ rights to land in Sub-Saharan Africa. It tests the overall working hypothesis that in developing democra ...

Period: 2015-01-1 to 2022-04-30 Countries: Mozambique Tanzania Lead institution: Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark Partner institutions: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Eduardo Mondlane University (EMU), Mozambique University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania Project code: 14-05RUC Total grant: 9,969,902 DKK

Securing rural livelihoods through improved smallholder pig production in Mozambique and Tanzania (SLIPP)

Research project The SLIPP project aims to improve community food security in Mozambique and Tanzania by fostering optimal smallholder pig production model systems. The project is an extension of previous Danish-funded projects in the two countries which informed tha ... Project completion report: Food safety and security is challenging in rural areas of south-eastern Africa particularly when it comes to good quality protein. There has been an increase in pig production by smallholder farmers in Angónia district, ...

Period: 2009-12-31 to 2016-12-31 Countries: Mozambique Tanzania Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Eduardo Mondlane University (EMU), Mozambique Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania Project code: 09-007LIFE Total grant: 7,302,937 DKK

What Is In It for Me? – A Case Study of Land Tenure Systems In Suburban Maputo

Master thesis Abstract: With an outset in existing studies pointing to increasing tenure insecurity in an informal settlement in Mozambique’s capital Maputo, this thesis explores to whether increased tenure insecurity increases the demand for land righ ...

Period: 2016-03-21 to 2016-04-29 Countries: Mozambique Lead institutions: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Grant recipient: Astrid Grønbæk Project code: A29608 Total grant: 8,000 DKK

Hidden Hunger and Gendered Poverty in the 1000-day Window Trade-offs in Pregnant and Nursing Women’s Diet Quality in Southern Mozambique

Master thesis Abstract: Background : Pregnant and nursing women (PNW) in low-resource settings like the southern African country of Mozambique are at increased risk of hidden hunger, or micronutrient deficiencies, which result in devastating consequences fo ...

Period: 2016-01-3 to 2016-03-15 Countries: Mozambique Lead institutions: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Grant recipient: Hayley Elizabeth Freedman Project code: A29030 Total grant: 11,665 DKK

Mozambique’s Fortune Cookie, An alternative perspective into China’s recent expansion into Mozambique & Sub-Saharan Africa

Master thesis Abstract: The underlying purpose of this thesis is to present an alternative if not complementary perspective to the most recent wave of discussions regarding China’s expansion into Mozambique and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)i as it is argued ...

Period: 2015-06-10 to 2015-07-19 Countries: Mozambique Lead institutions: Aarhus University (AU), Denmark Grant recipient: Tania Maj Vanimal Roden Project code: A27927 Total grant: 19,000 DKK

Structures of Stigma: Diagonal AIDS Care and Treatment Abandonment in Mozambique

Research project From a predominantly political standpoint, informed by a multi-sited ethnographical case study in Mozambique, this project aims to provide a clear articulation of the relationship between curative AIDS interventions and malnutrition in Mozambique. Su ... Project Completion Report: This ethnography is based on 13 months of fieldwork in Mozambican AIDS treatment facilities, which are made up of a patchwork of global health discourse, national priorities, donor agendas, and regional and local polit ...

Period: 2008-12-30 to 2013-06-30 Countries: Mozambique Lead institution: Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark Project code: 65-08-RUC Total grant: 2,147,963 DKK

Smallholders Resilience to Extreme Weather Events in Chókwè district, Southern Mozambique

Master thesis ABSTRACT
Extreme weather events (EWEs) have been referred to as rare and severe events within a specific area and time. They have been said to exert a significant toll on rain-fed agriculture, which is the main farming system by the smallh ...

Period: 2013-05-21 to 2013-06-21 Countries: Mozambique Lead institutions: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Grant recipient: Felisberto Mutongoreca Singreia Afonso Project code: A22390 Total grant: 10,000 DKK

Economic Governance and Development in Vietnam and Mozambique

Research project This research programme is an inquiry into: (i) why two developing countries, Vietnam and Mozambique, have achieved exceptionally high and consistent annual rates of economic progress for more than 15 years, (ii) whether the benefits of growth were t ... Project Completion Report The Economic Governance and Development in Vietnam and Mozambique research program was an inquiry into (i) why two developing countries, Vietnam and Mozambique, have achieved exceptionally high and consistent annual rates ...

Period: 2008-12-31 to 2012-12-29 Countries: Mozambique Vietnam Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), Vietnam Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs (ILSSA), Vietnam National Directorate of Studies and Policy Analysis (DNEAP), Vietnam National Institute of Statistics (INE), Vietnam Project code: 85-08-KU Total grant: 7,407,013 DKK

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