A private company owned by Mozambique’s Ministry of Land, Environment, and Rural Development (MITADER) is setting up a timber processing joint venture with an international company to process and export timber from small forestry concessions in northern Mozambique. FundInvest, established by Celso Correia’s MITADER in 2017 after the government banned the export of unprocessed logs,…...

Left: Celso Correia, minister of land, environment, and rural development. Right: Wood produced on Obtala's concessions in Mozambique.