Increased responsible public and private investment in the agricultural sector is key to poverty reduction, improved food security and production of nutritious food at reasonable prices. This came out clearly...

"Healthy soils are the foundation of global food production and ought to become a key agenda item in public policy", said Moujahed Achouri, Director of FAO's Land and Water Division,...

The newest project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Mozambique has been launched on Thursday (09/04) in Maputo. The goal of the project "Strengthening...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today attended an African Union (AU) summit which is set to focus on a continent-wide commitment by governments to end hunger by 2025, and...

Short before he left Mozambique, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations agencies based in Rome, David Lane, described the collaboration between the three Rome-based UN agencies in the...

For five days, 11 technicians attended a training in detection, surveillance and epidemiology of the peste des petits ruminants (PPR). The goal of the workshop – which was promoted by...

Throughout three days the "Dialogue for the strengthening of civil society in the food and nutrition security sector" brought together representatives of civil society organizations as well as from the Technical...

Few weeks before the end of 2014, declared by the UN as "International Year of Family Farming", the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Thursday (4/12)...

A delegation of representatives of the Scandinavian countries to the UN agencies in Mozambique on Friday (28/11) concluded its five-day visit to the country. The group, constituted by representatives of...

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...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Friday (21/11) participated in the central ceremonies of World Fisheries Day in Massingir, Gaza province. The day, that has...