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Mozambique is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change: while drought mainly affects the southern part of the country, northern and central regions have suffered a series of cyclical heavy rains over the past few years that have caused widespread flooding and threatened rural livelihoods.One month ago Tropical Cyclone...

In mid-March Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall on Mozambique, resulting in heavy rainfall and violent winds, tracking inland from Beira City and continuing through central provinces, threatening lives and livelihoods. While the full extent of the impact is still being assessed, early reports of affected infrastructure and livelihoods include an...

Farmers in areas left devastated by Tropical Cyclone Idai in Mozambique have started to receive much-needed agricultural inputs thanks to a joint effort by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Mozambique's Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security to assist hard-hit rural families to get a...

8 April 2019, Maputo – More than a hundred representatives from ministries, agencies, international organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), academia and the private sector are gathering in Mozambique this week for a two day summit on forest monitoring around the world.The event is organized by the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI)...

29 March 2019, Rome/Maputo - The lives and livelihoods of farmers and fishers in the three Southern African countries hit by Tropical Cyclone Idai are under severe threat, with communities in Mozambique bearing a particularly heavy burden. For a country where 80 percent of the population depends on agriculture, keeping...