The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $1.4 billion to help smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia adapt to climate change, the philanthropic organization announced yesterday. The amount will be distributed over four years to promote innovations that enable small farmers to better withstand droughts, heat waves and...
Mozambique will soon release a study on food security in the post-harvest scenario, according to assurances from the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Celso Korea. The work includes statistics on the increase of people in emergency due to terrorism in Cabo Delgado. "All the international data report that we are an example. I think we have
The European Union (EU) will support 10,000 more Mozambican farmers to produce cereals for the country to face the world food crisis aggravated by the war in Ukraine. The measure will result from a reinforcement of 15 million euros for the Promove AgriBiz program celebrated today in Maputo. "These funds will allow, starting this agricultural season,...
About five million Mozambicans have been freed from food insecurity in the country since the beginning of the Sustenta program, five years ago, through the financing of agricultural projects, with direct results in increasing agricultural production and productivity. Indeed, the number of people in this condition has dropped from 12.3 million in 2020 to about...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) says that Mozambique is off the list of countries with food insecurity and hunger. The FAO representative in Mozambique says that even with the destabilization in the north of the country, as well as the impacts of climate change, there are records of advances in production...
The Mozambican Cotton Association has been elected to chair the Permanent Producers' Committee of the Private Sector Consultative Council of the association of governments of cotton producing, consuming and trading countries. Mozambique will represent, until December next year, the world's largest private cotton producers represented at the ICAC - International Cotton Advisory Committee...
Mozambique is one of the beneficiaries of an additional grant estimated at $70 million, disbursed by the World Bank to finance the Eastern and Southern African Centers of Excellence for Higher Education (ACE II) Project. Of the $70 million, Mozambique will receive $10 million to strengthen higher education and...
The Zambezi Agency is investing about 160 million meticals in the operationalization of the agricultural mechanization program, as a way to stimulate the rice chain and other priority crops produced in the central region of the country. For this purpose, the agency has just delivered seven rice harvesters, fifteen tractors...
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), a Mozambican non-governmental organization (NGO), today asked for clarification on the allocation by the government of 12,000 hectares of land in Cabo Delgado to a state entity, without public consultation. "Four months after receiving 12,000 hectares of land in Palma," next to the gas projects, "the Centro...
An overall amount of US$ 120 million will be invested over the next five years in the country in activities aimed at increasing agricultural production and improving food security of families. The information was announced by the representative of the United Nations Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Mozambique, Hernane Coelho, in a meeting for the presentation and validation of the...