Mozambique
This year's World Aids Day in Mozambique will be marked by World Vision with a special focus on the issue of 'the relationship between communities' vulnerability to the pandemic and food security'. The idea is to draw attention to the need…
Mozambique
WFP Mozambique -- Pipeline update The WFP regional EMOP is 45% funded. WFP is pre-positioning food in Vilankulos and Govuri districts in Inhambane province and in Machanga district in southern Sofala province. These are the areas where…
Mozambique
Highlights Normal to above normal rains led to an optimistic start of the season in large parts of Gaza, Inhambane and southern Manica and Sofala provinces in October, but rainfall in November has been below normal in…
Mozambique
National Contingency Plan 2004 The Government of Mozambique has begun elaborating its annual Contingency Plan. A meeting, chaired by the National Director of the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) was held in Chokwé from 29 to 31 October to…
Mozambique
Highlights Heavy rains fell in much of southern Mozambique during the second dekad of October, potentiallly indicating the start of the 2003/04 rainy season. The rains, brought by a cold front passing over the area, were the first significant rains…
Mozambique
Todd Reese Silver Spring, Maryland - The European Commission has awarded 3.3 million Euro (US$3.9 million) in funding to the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) office in Mozambique for a four-year project to increase food security. The program, to begin…
Mozambique
Highlights The Vulnerability Assessment Committee (VAC) is increasing its monitoring of food insecurity during the critical lean season from October-March. This period, characterized even in normal years by reduced availability of food and water, increasing food prices and high demand for…
Mozambique
IMMEDIATE HELP FOR 659,000 "EXTREMELY FOOD INSECURE" PEOPLE Last month, the Vulnerability Assessment Committee (VAC) of the Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition (SETSAN) released the results of a May-June food security and nutrition survey of 5,165 households in six…
Mozambique
The case of Tete Province Mozambique is not only facing a food crisis and drought, but is also one of the most chronically poor nations in the world and the most recent UN Human Development Report (2003) places Mozambique…
Mozambique
Highlights Agricultural marketing is underway in the productive northern and central zones of the country. The dynamics of agricultural trade this season are markedly different from last year due to: (a) limited trade with neighboring Malawi; (b)…
