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Representatives from the Belgian embassy in Maputo and the Belgian Fund for Food Security (BFFS) have visited two Farmer Field Schools (FFS) – one with agriculture and the other with livestock activities on a trip to Gaza Province, in the South of Mozambique. On this trip, which ended on Friday...

Around 5 500 small-scale family farmers who have participated in the "Purchase from Africans for Africa Programme" (PAA Africa) so far have been able to boost their productivity by 115 percent, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Tuesday (10/03) disclosed in a report.The PAA Africa...

The model of agricultural production that predominates today "is not suitable for the new food security challenges of the 21st century", FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today. "While the numbers of the chronically hungry have been reduced by 100 million over the past decade, 805 million still go...

"My house has been flooded. I couldn’t take anything out of the house. My pots, my clothes and blankets, everything disappeared with the water", says Admira Maurício, 29, a single mother from Nicoadala district in Northern Mozambique. Her mud house easily collapsed under the unrelenting rain and her little backyard...

180 teachers will give nutrition education lessons in primary schools in Manica Province, Central Mozambique, after being trained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the Mozambican Ministry of Education and Human Development (MEDH). Using the FAO manual "Let's eat nutritious food", the...