With the help of a new training guide developed by FAO and the International Labour Organization (ILO), extension workers in Africa and elsewhere are engaging with rural communities to reduce...

International prices for agricultural commodities continued to decline in April and abundant inventories are poised to offset any pressure from the slight reduction in global harvests expected this year. Worldwide cereal...

During the 2014/2015 rainy season, Mozambique was hit by heavy rains that led to severe flooding, particularly between the months of January and March 2015. On 12 January, the Council...

Judite Moreira was one of the first to get the white bag that everyone was waiting to receive this morning at Mocua Resettlement Centre in the District of Namacurra, Zambézia Province. The...

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...