Mozambique
High Vulnerability in the South Preliminary results of the FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission (CFSAM) were presented in Maputo on May 22. The assessment team confirmed that the agricultural production outlook for this year is good in the…
Mozambique
World Vision Mozambique (WVM) has just received approval from World Vision Taiwan for a much needed Food Security/Agriculture Recovery Program to be implemented in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza. The project, with a budget of US$ 98,553 is…
Mozambique
Food Security Update Fews Net Issues Alert Fews Net issued an alert for Mozambique on February 28. According to the Famine Early Warning System Network, the quasi-total failure of the crops for the main harvest in the South and Center of…
Mozambique
Highlights The main 2002/03 rainy season has come to an end in most of the country. The season has been marked by erratic rains, with long dry spells and periods of intense rainfall brought by tropical storms. For the season…
Mozambique
Highlights Food insecurity is increasing in Chicualacuala and other parts of Gaza, where people are surviving mainly on wild foods. The livestock ban, issued because of foot and mouth disease, is further undermining food security by reducing household income normally…
Mozambique
After drought, the deluge. Cyclone Japhet has left 50,000 people in Central Mozambique struggling to survive yet another natural disaster. Jennifer Abrahamson reports. Machanga, March 24 - Julieta Henrique believed she had found a way to exorcise the almost biblical…
Mozambique
"There is hunger here. We haven't enough food." A voice rising above a group of animated young people tells me. These are words that contrast quite sharply with the unmistakable green of the fields nearby. Inevitably I retort "How…
Mozambique
MAPUTO - The United Nations World Food Programme has launched an emergency operation to airlift food to thousands of people who have been cut off by floods caused by Cyclone Japhet in central Mozambique. On Sunday, a WFP helicopter made…
Mozambique
Highlights FEWS NET has issued a food security warning for Mozambique, indicating that certain population groups are now, or are about to become, highly food insecure. These groups will be forced to reduce consumption, dispose of their productive assets and…
Mozambique
Near-Failure of Main Season Crops Worsens Outlook in Southern and Central Zones A serious deterioration in the food security status of vulnerable populations in southern and central Mozambique is occurring and is expected to worsen over the next twelve months.…
