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 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...

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 Assistant Director-General of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Árni Mathiesen, on Friday (14/11) left Mozambique after a three-day...

The Mozambique Minister of Fisheries, Víctor Manuel Borges, and the Assistant Director-General of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department at FAO, Árni Mathiesen, on Wednesday signed a Host Agreement of the...

The children's engagement was right there, in front of everyone. Concentrated on the song lyrics, eyes wide open, straight backs. Their clothes, one could see, were kept for big events....

It was still a fresh morning when dozens of women started preparing lunch. Sitting in groups, around pots for big families, eating leftovers from breakfast, they cooked sweet potatoes and...

At a panel about "The Rights over Land and Natural Resources" at the III International Conference on Women Farmers over Land, which took place between 1 and 2 October in...

On Friday (19/09) the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) presented the results of the annual report on "The State of...

22 October, 2013 - During a ceremony that took place in Maputo on 7 August, the Government of Mozambique launched the EU funded programme called “Accelerate progress towards MDG 1...

“Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition” will be the focus of World Food Day in 2013. The official World Food Day theme – announced at the start of every...

Maputo, 5th july 2013 - A food security and nutrition programme partnership agreement between the Government of Mozambique, represented by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Government of the Kingdom of...

Maputo, 08 March 2013 – Under the auspices of the FAO´s Costal Fisheries Development for  Gaza and Inhambane Provinces  Project, funded by the Government of Italy, FAO Mozambique and the...