日本の農業支援終了　「小規模農家排除」と反対運動―モザンビーク

　アフリカ南部モザンビークで７月、日本の農業支援事業「プロサバンナ」が終了した。事業の問題点を指摘してきたＮＧＯ、日本国際ボランティアセンター（ＪＶＣ）などが３日に東京・永田町の参院議員会館で行った記者会見に、現地で反対運動を続けてきた農民団体、北部ナンプラ州農民連合のコスタ・エステバン代表（５３）もオンラインで参加。「小さな農家の声を聴かずに進めようとしたことが間違っていた」と指摘した。
　プロサバンナは、ブラジル中部を大豆など輸出作物の農地に変貌させた経験を同じポルトガル語圏のモザンビークで生かそうと、ブラジルと日本が組んで約１０年間続けられた。しかし「ブラジル企業が入り込み、小さな農家を畑から追い出そうとしている」（ブラジルのＮＧＯ）と批判され、昨夏来日したエステバン氏も横浜市で開かれたアフリカ開発会議（ＴＩＣＡＤ）の会場で見直しを訴えていた。（2020/08/03-19:21）

A farmer in Mozambique on Monday pointed to issues related to a Japan-led project to support agriculture in the southern African country that ended last month.
   The ProSavana project was wrong because parties involved tried to implement it without hearing the voices of small farmers, said Costa Estevao, leader of a farmers' group in the northern Mozambique province of Nampula.
   He made the remarks while joining online a press conference held in Tokyo by groups, including the Japan International Volunteer Center, or JVC, following the end of the project. The JVC and Estevao's group had raised questions about the decade-long project, implemented through cooperation between Japan and Brazil.
   ProSavana was devised on the basis of a project to turn a central area in Brazil into rich farmland for soybeans and other produce for exports. But a Brazilian nongovernmental organization had criticized the project, saying that Brazilian companies participating in the project were trying to kick out small Mozambican farmers.
   Estevao called for a review of the project, at the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development, or TICAD 7, held in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, in August last year.