This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) captures the interplay between development challenges and climate change and climate policies in Mozambique, with the objective of identifying synergies and tradeoffs. The CCDR informs the World Bank Group’s engagement in Mozambique, alongside other key products, such as Systematic Country Diagnostics (SCDs) and …
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Some 23 million farmers in drought-hit Southern Africa need urgent help to prepare for the next planting season with only a few weeks left before it begins, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday. FAO said failure to help farmers in time …
Southern African countries have launched an emergency appeal for $2.8bn (£2.1bn) to help feed nearly 40 million people hit by one of the worst regional droughts in 35 years. According to the South African Development Community, which comprises 15 countries, 23 million people require urgent humanitarian assistance and a further …
Some 18 million people from seven southern Africa countries require emergency food aid, according to the latest report by World Food Programme. The food security crisis in the region has been attributed to El Nino weather patterns which triggered unexpected droughts and prolonged dry spells last year. Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, …
The United Nations' food agency said on Thursday it needed $730 million over the next 12 months for relief in seven southern African countries hit hard by a blistering drought and faced a $610 million shortfall. The World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement the seven countries were Malawi, …
In Mozambique, at least 1.5 million people are in need of help because of an El Niño-induced drought, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said. The UN humanitarian agency disclosed that El Nino, the harsh weather phenomenon – characterized by warmer sea temperatures that can …
For a large majority of Euro-MPs, the G7’s decision to base its programme for food security in Africa on intensive agriculture is a mistake. The European parliament took its first official stance on the subject with the adoption of a report on the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition …
THE number of people struggling to get food in Southern Africa is projected to hit more than 49 million before the end of 2016 as a number of countries declare states of emergency. Currently, an estimated 31,6 million people across the region are in dire need of food. Lesotho, Malawi, …
The European Union and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have pledged to release €30 million for the reduction of chronic malnutrition in Mozambique.This followed an appeal by Mozambique’s technical secretariat for food and nutritional security concerns for about 43 percent of children suffering from chronic malnutrition in the country. …
The main purpose of FAO’s Social Protection Framework is to serve as a basis for the provision of more effective support to countries in delivering social protection to fight hunger, malnutrition and poverty in coherence with agricultural, food security, nutrition and rural development efforts. The document provides elements for an …
The provincial prosecutor’s office in the central Mozambican province of Manica, along the border with Zimbabwe, has expressed concern over the increased number of illegal loggers of timber, some of which is protected by law. Speaking in the province on Sunday, the head of the provincial Attorney General’s office, Miguel …
More than 500 houses have been damaged by a major storm which swept through Mozambique’s port city of Beira in the central province of Sofala on Saturday, APA learns here on Sunday. According to state-controlled weekly Sunday paper, Domingo, the storm coincided with high tides and the sea smashed across …
The natural disasters which have struck Mozambique this year have compromised the target for agricultural growth in the country this year, APA learns on Monday.According to state-controlled Radio Mozambique, the Confederation of Mozambican Business Associations (CTA), furthermore, the military tensions in the centre of the country, where gunmen of the …
Maputo — Almost 1.5 million people in Mozambique are now affected by food insecurity, caused essentially by the drought hitting the southern and central regions of the country, Antonio Paulo, an official of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, announced in Maputo on Friday. Speaking to AIM, at the …
Maputo — Over 300,000 people are affected by food insecurity as a result of the drought in southern and central Mozambique, the government spokesperson, Deputy Health Minister Mouzinho Saide, announced in Maputo on Tuesday. Adding up the figures provided by local authorities, the exact number of people affected by drought …
Maputo — Water shortages in the drought-stricken southern Mozambican province of Gaza have become critical, and the southern regional water board (ARA-Sul) has been forced to halt discharges from the Massingir dam. The dam, built in the early 1970s, is on the Elephants river, the largest tributary of the Limpopo. …
Swaziland’s Health Minister and her Mozambican counterpart on Monday staged sensitisation campaigns on malaria at the Mhlumeni border post between the two countries, APA reports on Tuesday. Minister Sibongile Simelane says the two countries have initiated collective commitment to fight both malaria and tuberculosis by using all channels for continued …
Mozambican President, Filipe Nyusi and his visiting Zambian counterpart President Edgar Lungu have inaugurated a floating thermal power plant in Nacala Port in the country’s northern Nampula Province.The project opened on Saturday is designed to ensure more power supply to the north of Mozambique. The plant, with a capacity of …
The Minister of Land, Environment and Rural Development, Celso Correia, announced in Maputo on 3 March that during 2015 the Mozambican authorities detained over 300 people in connection with poaching. He was speaking at commemorations of World Wildlife Day, at a time when the country's wild life is under serious …
This study examines the agricultural policies and strategies that have influenced agricultural development in Mozambique, the support structures that have been put in place, and the realities and challenges of their implementation. It was found that key stakeholders understand the concept of sustainable agriculture, that the most important contributing components …
There are an estimated 500 million smallholder farming households globally, who comprise a large proportion of the world’s poor living on less than $2 a day. In CGAP’s Smallholder Diaries, researchers met with 270 smallholder farmers in Mozambique, Pakistan, and Tanzania every two weeks for a year to understand their …
