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The global strategy for improving agriculture and rural statistics is an "innovative partnership that we can see as one of the biggest efforts ever tried with the objective of improving agricultural statistics on a sustainable basis". These were the words of FAO Representative in Mozambique, Castro Camarada, during the "Regional Seminar...

The Assistant Director-General of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Árni Mathiesen, on Friday (14/11) left Mozambique after a three-day visit. Mathiesen on Wednesday (12/11) signed the Host Agreement of the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission’s (SWIOFC) Secretariat, effectively transferring...

The Mozambique Minister of Fisheries, Víctor Manuel Borges, and the Assistant Director-General of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department at FAO, Árni Mathiesen, on Wednesday signed a Host Agreement of the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission’s (SWIOFC) Secretariat. This Host Agreement effectively transfers the location of the SWIOFC Secretariat from...

The children's engagement was right there, in front of everyone. Concentrated on the song lyrics, eyes wide open, straight backs. Their clothes, one could see, were kept for big events. This year, the village of 3 de Fevereiro, located in the District of Manhiça, Province of Maputo, has been chosen...

It was still a fresh morning when dozens of women started preparing lunch. Sitting in groups, around pots for big families, eating leftovers from breakfast, they cooked sweet potatoes and rice, washed lettuce leaves and tomatoes, pounded garlic. Two oxen had been killed for the festive occasion. After all, it...