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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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"A translation from the Haitian Kreyol of the first major novel in Haiti's national vernacular. Written in an unconventional style with a number of voices and a combination of myth, poetry, allegory, magical realism, and social realism, Franketienne's Dezafi tells the tale of a plantation that is run and worked by zombies for the financial benefit of the living owner. With the walking dead and bloody cockfights ('dezafi') as cultural metaphors for Haitian existence, Dezafi is ultimately an allegory of political and social liberation"--
Plantations --- Zombies
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Plantations --- History
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Plantations --- History
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Bananas --- Plantations
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Plantations --- Slavery
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Plantations and slaves formed the core of Surinamese society for more than two centuries. Surinamese contrast, based on an almost ten-year study of Dutch, Surinamese and English archival material on several hundred plantations, offers the most comprehensive and in-depth study of this duality. The study paints a vivid and detailed picture of Surinamese society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is shown that there were several plantation sectors - coffee, sugar and cotton - that were structurally different from each other and each had its own history. It also extensively discusses the fight against the water, which aggravated life on most Surinamese plantations. For most of the Surinamese population, the plantation was not only a place of work but also a place of residence. That is why not only the work, but also the living environment of the plantation residents is described. It is obvious that most attention is paid to the way of life and the struggle for existence of the slaves: they made up the vast majority of the population and were tied to the plantations from generation to generation. Surinamese contrast furthermore shows that Surinamese society was constantly changing and changing. Robbery and survival characterized the Surinamese plantation society, in a precarious equilibrium. The extent to which Suriname deviated from the general Caribbean pattern in this and in other respects becomes clear from the many comparisons made with other plantation colonies in the region.
Plantations --- Plantations. --- Suriname --- Farms --- History.
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