Geography of Poverty: Case Study: Mo çambique

1. Geography of Poverty: Case Study: Moçambique Rick Bein IUPUI Geography Department Fulbright Schollar to Mozambique 11 Months Sept 2004-August 2005 Teaching “Maneio e planificação de Recursos Recreativos” (Ecotourism) Research 4 Storey Agriculture

3. Gross Domestic Product Per Capita

4. Human Development Index

5. Debt as Percent of Income Fig. 9-20: Many developing countries have accumulated large debts relative to their GDPs. Much of their budgets now must be used to finance their debt.

6. Mozambique

7. Rainfall in millimeters:Moçambique

8. Near the Zimbabwe Border

9. SAVE RIVER

10. Elephant Tracks

11. Elephants dig for water

13. Clearings

14. New Forest Clearing

15. Charcoal

16. Moçambique Statistics • Population: 19.4 million • BR 42/1000 • DR 20/1000 • NIR 2.2% • Doubling rate : 32 years • Infant Mortality Rate: 215/1000 • Life Expectancy : 42 years

17. Newborn

18. 17 % of Women Use Contraception in Mozambique

19. 44 % Population Below Age 15

20. Female Literacy Rates Fig. 9-13a: Female literacy is lower than male literacy (Fig. 9-13b) in many LDCs, with significant gender gaps in parts of the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

21. Gender Differences in School Enrollment Fig. 9-12: As many or more girls than boys are enrolled in school in more developed countries, but fewer girls than boys are enrolled in many LDCs.

22. Gender-Related Development Index (GDI) Fig. 9-10: The GDI combines four measures of development, reduced by the degree of disparity between males and females.

23. Types of Households

24. Rural Assets

25. HIV in Adults above 16% in Moçambique

27. HIV Poster

28. Number of Students per Teacher

29. People per Physician

30. Percent Urban Population Fig. 13-1: Percent of the population living in urban areas is usually higher in MDCs than in LDCs.

31. MAPUTO FROM THE AIR

32. Maputo Water Front.

33. Main Mosque

34. Main Catholic Cathedral

37. Assembly of God Church

38. Wealthier High-rise Neighborhood

39. Middle Class Neighborhood

40. My Apartment

41. High-rise Neighborhood

42. Poorer neighborhood

43. Itinerant shops

44. Ecotourism • Application for a forestry curriculum • Support a national effort to develop tourism as a source for raising foreign capital • Course mission: develop a sense of sustainability regarding the use of tourism resources

45. 1. What kind of tourism can Mozambicans appreciate? 2. How can Mozambicans become tourists? • Redefining tourism as to what is available for low income nationals

46. 4th year forestry students at Eduardo Mondlane University

47. Maputo City Parks • Portuguese colonial masters created 40 plus city parks in the capital city of Maputo before they left in the early 1970s. • Parks still remain on the landscape, but not always used in the manner intended by the Portuguese. • Parks remain as a source of recreation for the average Mozambicans.

48. Interviewing Stakeholders

49. This Park has become a Farm.

50. Largo do Ribatejo