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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held a programming meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday (31/03 & 01/04.) to discuss the Organization's projects in Mozambique. The country's technical staff and representatives from the Government, other UN agencies and 14 development partners attended the conference. In the opening session, FAO's...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Monday (30/03) officially closed the project "Right to Food" which the Organization had implemented in Mozambique in partnership with the Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition (SETSAN) of the Mozambique Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MASA). In a...

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...