Summary
Full Name (abbr.): União Nacional de Camponeses (UNAC) (in English: National Peasant's Union)
Socio-economic code:
COPNI1: Group: 07.3 - Services of professional organizations complementing COFOG2: 04.2.1: Economic Affairs - Agriculture
Website: http://www.unac.org.mz/
Activities
The National Peasant’s Union (UNAC) of Mozambique is a movement with 83.000 members and 2100 local branches in all of the country’s provinces. UNACs vision is to work for a greater role for peasants in the construction of a society based on justice, prosperity and solidarity. Their main strategic objectives include protection and dissemination of Mozambique’s land law and also giving technical support to their members.
Source: http://www.norway.org.mz/News_and_events/Focus-on-land-rights-and-gender-equality-in-Mozambique/
UNAC is a member of La Via Campesina.
For a recent statement on the Mozambique Food Protests, see: UNAC Mozambique-food-protest-Sept-2010-EN.
The document calls for more attention to peasant farming as a more sustainable and equitable alternative that makes (the poor in) developing countries less vulnerable to global (prize) shocks and speculation.
