This study forms part of a greater project, New SouthâSouth Development Trends and African Forest,  carried out in Gabon, Mozambique and Cameroon. In Mozambique, the project focused on the Brazilianâ JapaneseâMozambican trilateral program ProSavana. At the time the study began, there was little  information or previous work on the topic. This paper should therefore be treated as a scoping study.  During the course of this scoping study, only a few papers based on field research were published, and  the initial findings of this study are largely in line with this research. This paper supplements the existing  literature by adding depth from field interviews in Nampula and Zambezia as well as an examination of  the draft ProSavana reports, which became available in May 2013. This paper finds large misconceptions about what the ProSavana program is and what agrarian models  will be implemented under the program. The ProSavana program teamâs inadequacy in effectively  communicating the programâs mission, methods and content has led civil society to look to PROCEDER  for clues as to how ProSavana will play out in Mozambique. However, the findings from field visits,  interviews with a range of stakeholders and a review of ProSavana project documents reported in this  paper are that ProSavana will not be a replica of PROCEDER and the strategies proposed do align well  with Mozambiqueâs agrarian strategy, known as PEDSA, and by extension the Comprehensive African  Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). ProSavana must therefore be evaluated on its own merit.