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Last week the European Union  granted the Mozambican Government 67.3 Million Euros for the support to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), specifically the result MDG 1c – to reduce by half the amount of people suffering from hunger by 2015. Mozambique received the highest amount among the 36 countries...

"GCP/GLO/324/NOR - Integrating the Right to Adequate Food and Good Governance in National Policies, Legislation and Institutions” (in short, Right to Food at Country Level) is a continuation of Norway’s support to Mozambique and the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Bolivia), and marks the beginning of activities in Nepal and El...

More than 80% of the population in Mozambique is active in the agriculture sector. Of these, about 90% work in family farming. The family farming system in the country is characterized by family labor forces and a low degree of mechanization, with the large majority of agricultural production being rain-fed....

Thanks to the joint efforts deployed by a group of paralegals of the local NGO AMUDEIA, trained by the Juridical and Judicial Training Centre of the Ministry of Justice (CFJJ) with support of FAO, the first three land titles in favour of vulnerable women have been issued recently. [ more...]...