Tomorrow's Harvest

As the sun sets in Ribáuè, the small town in Northern Mozambique wraps up another day with tomorrow's harvest in mind. Ribáuè, the "granary" of Mozambique, is one of the key productive areas in a country where about 80% of the population have agriculture as their primary source of income.

It's also a land of agitation and struggle for farmers, where productivity has dropped sharply in the last decades. The blame, according to some of the local authorities I spoke to, is on farmers' hard heads, who "don't want to adapt to new techniques". Meanwhile, public investment remains at a bare minimum, with great amounts of public funds and grants unaccounted for.

Farmers in Ribáuè and neighboring Chicá or Namigonha welcomed us in their fields and told us the story of agriculture and development in their land. These are some of the faces of everyday life in country that remained the third poorest in the world in 2012.

This project was developed with Linnaeus University.