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16 June, Tete- About 100 public sector agricultural extension workers from the provinces of Gaza, Maputo, Tete and Manica were trained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on seeds multiplication and conservation farming through the implementation of the emergency programme. Speaking during the opening of the...

14 June- FAO in Mozambique under the MDG1c project is implementing a nutrition education and home gardens programme aimed at ensuring that vulnerable women and school children are reached with nutrition education for the promotion of appropriate diets and health practices for better nutrition; integrated with promoting increased production of...

01 June, Maputo- The Rome-based UN Agencies (RBAs), namely FAO, IFAD and WFP, held the National Steering Committee 2nd Meeting of the Programme " Accelerating progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals1c in Mozambique (MDG1c), in Maputo, to present the program's progress and prepare the output strategy for 2018. With...

31 May, Zambézia- Within the component that integrates Nutrition Education and Communication for Social Change and Behaviour Integrating Home Gardens from the Millenium Development Goals MDG1c programme, FAO received students from Quelimane Institute of Health Sciences, who joined the FAO team, to learn about their area. During the internship, the nutrition...

Cotton is a key export commodity in Mozambique and an important source of rural farm income and foreign exchange earnings. However, as a price taker on world cotton markets, the Mozambican cotton sector is particularly vulnerable to global market instability.It was in this context that several institutions linked to the...