A researcher from the Observatório do Meio Rural (OMR), a non-governmental organization, says it is abstract to say that 90% Mozambicans have three meals a day, if they are not the most adequate. According to Mariamo Abas, quoted by VOA, who was reacting to the Agriculture Minister's statement in Parliament that "90% of...
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More than a million Mozambicans at risk of food insecurity
The Mozambican authorities say that at least 1.4 million people, 900,000 of them in Cabo Delgado, are at risk of acute food security in the country, and the Observatório do Meio Rural (OMR) warns that the situation is much more serious, because one should not only look at the numbers of those affected, but all...
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"End of food support programs is at the root of chronic malnutrition in the country" -OMR
A study by the Rural Observatory (OMR) says that the government's focus on cash crops and the suspension of school lunch programs are making the incidence of chronic malnutrition in the country increasingly high. However, the government recognizes that these problems exist, especially in rural areas. According to...
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Government has neglected the development of rural areas
The executive director of the Rural Environment Observatory (OMR), João Mosca, criticizes the State for forgetting the countryside, channeling insufficient resources for the development of family agriculture favoring export crops. According to João Mosca, the government has neglected to finance the development of the areas and the rural productive sector. After independence, according to Mosca,...