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Director Executivo: Rui Vasconcelos* Sede: AAAJC* Telefone: 20030252*Cidade de Tete* Bairro Chingodzi* Editado em Português e Inglês
Quem somos? Associação de Apoio e Assistência Jurídica as Comunidades (AAAJC), é uma organização da Sociedade Civil Moçambicana, não-
governamental, sem fins lucrativos, de âmbito nacional, fundada em 2008 e com os seus estatutos legalmente publicados em 2010 no Boletim da República nº. 2, III serie, 4º suplemento de 19
de Janeiro. A sede é na cidade de Tete.
Penhane OFICIAL NEWS LETTER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR SUPPORT AND LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO COMUNITIES
Director Executivo Rui Vasconcelos* Sede: AAAJC* Telefone: 20030252*Cidade de Tete* Bairro Chingodzi* Editado em Português e
Edition nº112
tions on Forests, the National Forestry Forum, has been meet- million tCO2 emitted in the country. Since the potential
ing since 3 July in Nampula, in drawing the guidelines of the causes of deforestation and forest degradation are poverty,
design of its Strategic Plan for a 5 year horizon. Civil society population growth and international demand for precious
organizations are concerned. They note that Mozambique has timber, rural poverty and population pressure, alternative
34 million hectares of natural forest, covering 43% of its area; sources of income are limited, which has contributed to the
however, the irrational and unsustainable exploitation of use unsustainable forest. More than that, conversion to small
forests is leaving the local communities and, consequently, -scale agriculture is the main driver for deforestation, ac-
the country poor. It is NFF's understanding that forests pro- counting for 65% of forest loss. Some participants in Nam-
vide goods and services to local communities, including pula's "brain storming" in the elaboration of the Strategic
food, energy, medicines, building materials and furniture, Plan understand that the main drivers of degradation are the
and in some rural communities, miombo forests, for example, extraction of biomass and the unsustainable, sometimes ille-
contribute almost 20% household income and 40% of non- gal, exploitation of timber. They point to deforestation and
monetary subsistence income. Forests provide ecosystem forest degradation as contributors to the high cost to local
services of local and global value. Although the country's communities, to the national economy and to communities
forests have enormous value and unfulfilled potential, it is globally. And because with the loss of forests, local commu-
common ground that they are undergoing a disproportionate nities lose access to the forest products on which they de-
elimination in an accelerated manner. It is recurrent to the pend, they also reduce their resilience to the climate impact
perception that the National Forestry Inventory 2018 that and water flows that the forests regulate. And as if that were
indicated a 267 thousand hectares of forests were lost annual- not enough, the national income decreases due to underutili-
ly in the period between 2003 and 2013, a historical deforesta- zation of forest resources. Of the renewable natural re-
tion rate of 0.79%. This resulted in 40 million tCO2 emitted sources that Mozambique owns, forests are the second larg-