Maria Muianga

Forestry Engineer and Land Information Specialist
Terra Firma Limitada
Portrait of Maria Muianga
IIED, China–Africa Forest Governance Project News, November 2015 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Maria Muianga is a forestry engineer and land information specialist at Terra Firma Limitada in Mozambique. She holds a master’s degree in forest science with a focus on silviculture and has conducted research on natural forest management. Her work with Terra Firma uses geographic information systems and digital land records to help document community land rights and make those records accessible to communities and land administration offices. She led data management for the People’s Cadastre and has shared Mozambique’s experience of community-led responses to climate displacement.