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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently launched in Maputo the third phase of the FAO-European Union FLEGT Program, which is part of the Action Plan on Legislation, Governance and Trade of Forest Resources. The work plan for this phase of the Program in Mozambique is guided...

Elementary school students in Tete Province benefit from nutrition lessons in an approach adopted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to reduce chronic malnutrition in the province of Tete with a current rate of 44% in children 0-5 years), according to the Technical Secretariat for...

Mozambique is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change: while drought mainly affects the southern part of the country, northern and central regions have suffered a series of cyclical heavy rains over the past few years that have caused widespread flooding and threatened rural livelihoods.One month ago Tropical Cyclone...

In mid-March Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall on Mozambique, resulting in heavy rainfall and violent winds, tracking inland from Beira City and continuing through central provinces, threatening lives and livelihoods. While the full extent of the impact is still being assessed, early reports of affected infrastructure and livelihoods include an...

Farmers in areas left devastated by Tropical Cyclone Idai in Mozambique have started to receive much-needed agricultural inputs thanks to a joint effort by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Mozambique's Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security to assist hard-hit rural families to get a...