BMG – an authorised distributor for over 50 years of Bijur Delimon lubrication systems – supplies and supports the full range of manual and fully automated lubrication equipment throughout Southern and Central Africa. Five-decade partnership delivers dependable lubrication solutions. “Through this partnership – which has been in place since1974 – we are able to offer ...

Photo: FAO Mozambique /X Mozambique has officially launched the second phase of the Support to the Operationalization of the SADC Regional Agricultural Policy (STOSAR II), a strategic initiative aimed at transforming agriculture and agrifood systems across Southern Africa. The announcement was made on October 13 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries (MAAP), in ...

Sofala Province, Mozambique — The Chemba District Attorney’s Office has formally accused Agriculture Minister Roberto Albino of authorizing illegal logging activities on his private forestry concession, deepening scrutiny over his conduct in office. According to prosecutors, Albino directed the company Ecofarm to extract 18 cubic meters of timber from 50 hectares of his 500-hectare concession—without ...

Photo: Minister of Agriculture, Ambiente e Pescas Mozambique’s agricultural sector is poised for a significant boost following renewed commitments from the Italian government to invest in agribusiness and rural development. Speaking at a bilateral business forum in Maputo, Italy’s Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, affirmed his country’s strategic interest in strengthening Mozambique’s economy through targeted ...

Agriculture ministers and top-level policymakers from 14 African countries will meet with their counterparts from three Asian countries in Hanoi on 15 July 2025 to discuss making agrifood production more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable to reduce high levels of hunger, malnutrition and poverty in both regions. The High-Level Inter-regional Knowledge Exchange on One Country ...

Photo: FAO In a move poised to strengthen agricultural trade and empower farmers, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) is funding a EUR 3.5 million, Zimbabwe Mozambique Agricultural Value Chain and Trade Development Project (Zim-Moza ATDP), Zimbabwe will receive EUR 1.166 million of the total budget. In Zimbabwe, the Zim-Moza ATDP is implemented by ...

New Representative of the African Union Commission His Excellency Ambassador Moses Vilakati [second person from the right, at front seat], and other international institutions at the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism’s 14th Governing Council meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (The Mechanism) is making significant strides toward closing Africa’s agricultural productivity gap. At ...

In a hot and sunny November afternoon in temperatures reaching 30C, Siphiwe Sithole is busy sorting a customer’s order of bambara beans on her farm in Laezonia, South Africa. Sithole’s farm is about 15 kilometres from the administrative capital Pretoria. It specialises in “indigenous” South African crops – a catch-all term referring both to native ...

Project amount: $2 million Approval date: September 2023 Status: On-going Project Description This project consists of a $2 million partial trade credit guarantee and a $877,980 grant from the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism to the African Fertilizer Agribusiness Partnership for the Fertilizer Financing for Sustainable Agriculture Management project in Mozambique. The project aims to increase ...

The list of China’s food imports from Africa now includes avocados, soybeans, pineapples, chillies, cashew nuts, sesame seeds and spices. Photo: Xinhua Avocados and honey imports a sign of China’s growing agricultural engagement with Africa Agricultural cooperation to be high on the agenda when Beijing hosts the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit next week. South ...