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...
Category: Agriculture
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"Mozambique is off the list of countries with food insecurity and hunger" - FAO
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...
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Mozambicans will chair the world cotton industry
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...
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World Bank announces 10 million to fund agricultural research projects in Mozambique
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 $10 million to strengthen higher education and...
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Zambezi Agency invests 160 million in rice chain
The Zambezi Agency is investing about 160 million meticals in the operationalization of the agricultural mechanization program, as a way to stimulate the rice chain and other priority crops produced in the central region of the country. For this purpose, the agency has just delivered seven rice harvesters, fifteen tractors...
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Civil Society wants clarification on the allocation of 12,000 hectares of land
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), a Mozambican non-governmental organization (NGO), today asked for clarification on the allocation by the government of 12,000 hectares of land in Cabo Delgado to a state entity, without public consultation. "Four months after receiving 12,000 hectares of land in Palma," next to the gas projects, "the Centro...
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USD 120 million invested for food security
An overall amount of US$ 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...
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Available Credit line of USD 72 million for more than 270,000 rural farmers
More than 270 thousand rural farmers will benefit, until next December, from a credit line of 72 million dollars, to stimulate their activity, according to an official source connected to the project. The project, which is implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, is financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development ....
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IPEME entrusts Gapi with the management and operation of a feed mill
The Institute for the Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises (IPEME) and Gapi have signed this Monday morning, September 12th, at the Private Office of the Ministry of Finance, a public deed for the cession and exploitation of a manufacturing enterprise located in the District of Chimbonila, Niassa Province. Initialed by the representatives of these two...
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Mozambique and Portugal seek strategies to innovate in agriculture
Mozambique and Portugal are working to identify strategies to innovate and technologically develop agriculture so that a greater number of young people join this sector of activity. To this end, the Young Farmers Association of Portugal (AJAP) organized on Wednesday in Maputo, a Forum on Quality and Agri-Food Sustainability, focusing on the...