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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...

Few days before the emergency team of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) arrives in the areas affected by the floods of the beginning of this year, in central and northern Mozambique, the Representative of the Organization in the country talked about the impact flooding had...

The humanitarian community in Mozambique, including United Nations agencies, IOM, Red Cross and various NGOs, launched a $30.1 million response and recovery proposal last week, to address the needs of over 160,000 flood-affected people in hard-hit Zambézia province in central Mozambique. The proposal responds to a request from the Government...