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Illegal logging is a relevant challenge for the establishment and maintenance of efficient markets and sustainable logging practices in a global economy that increasingly requires guarantees of timber production licit and sustainable. Illicit practices in the timber sector have resulted in increased environmental damage, particularly forest degradation, but also in the...

In response to the threat of the Fall Armyworm (FAW) and also to improve food and nutritional security in the country, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) approved a new project to improve the Government's and civil society response and containment of the pest.In this sense,...

Although agriculture is seen as a catalyst for development in Mozambique, some crucial factors such as trade barriers have been identified as a major constraint in promoting agricultural productivity, improving the value chain and promoting food security.To improve the coherence of policy and coordination mechanisms between the Ministry of Agriculture...

After 4 years of intervention in the FAO´s Millennium Development Goals(MDG1) programme, more than 1 million poultry were vaccinated against Newcastle disease in the Vanduzi, Gondola, Manica, Sussundenga, Barué and Macate districts , in the central Mozambican province of Manica. This is the balance made by FAO and partners of the...

April 2, 2018 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is providing technical assistance for the training of national technicians in agrarian extension to expand and consolidate the Methodology of Farmer Field Schools (FFS)) throughout the country. The training, which takes place in the Gondola district of...