O impacto do plano de acção para a produção de alimentos (PAPA), na produção agrária e na transformação da economia do distrito de Magude de 2008-2015

Abstract

In Africa, agriculture plays a leading role in the economy, both as a source of employment for the majority of its population and as a source of government revenue through the export of agricultural products. Agriculture also plays an important role in combating poverty, generating rural employment and contributing to family and national food security, in addition to contributing to the reduction of essentially rural poverty, representing in economic terms 20% of GDP and 80% of exports. Furthermore, at the national level, approximately two thirds of the workforce is in this sector, with approximately 90% of active women and 70% of active men. In methodological terms, the work used bibliographical research, as it gathered data and information that provide sustainability in the investigation of agrarian policies in post-colonial Mozambique. And this bibliographical research also includes the description of Magude's profile. In the field research, qualitative research was conducted based on interviews with the administrative entities of Magude, as well as with family farmers, in order to study their particularities and individual experiences regarding the impact of PAPA on the transformation of the economy in the district of Magude. Also within this methodological scope, the research carried out collective interviews with the associates, due to their location, and it was decided to schedule a meeting where data could be collected to address the experiences of PAPA, and later the information was systematized in the form of tables and finally analyzed. In structural terms, the work has three chapters. The first analyzes agrarian policies in Mozambique; the second presents the economic perspectives of post-independent Mozambique, especially in the position of the agricultural sector, as well as the setbacks of the economic crisis that was felt. The third describes the profile of Magude and analyzes the impact of the strategic plans for the development of the agricultural sector on the transformation of the economy of the district of Magude (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)