Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Celso Correia, and ICO’s Executive Director, Vanúsia Nogueira, shake hands on signing the agreement © Lucy Young 2023 The Government of Mozambique has joined the International Coffee Organization (ICO) for the first time in its history, at a ceremony held in central London. The southern African state is committed ...

Maputo — Mozambican Agriculture Minister Celso Correia on Wednesday called for “a paradigm shift’ in the approach to agriculture, “because we cannot continue to be a laboratory of experiments, where each partner arrives and gives us seeds, but years later, when the resources run out, the households fall back into poverty’. Correia was speaking in ...

Another cashew processing factory will shortly begin operations in the northern province of Nampula, bringing the total number in the country to 12. Deputy Agriculture Minister Olegario Banze made this announcement on 23 November in Nassaruma, in the Nampula district of Meconta, where he launched the 2022-2023 cashew marketing campaign which is expected to earn ...

Mozambique has always been subject to persistent food insecurity, due in part to low investment in food production and natural disasters. Now it is witnessing on its doorstep a shock coming from the Russian-Ukrainian war – sharply rising food prices. Matilde Jose, 40, is a vegetable saleswoman in the city of Chimoio in central Mozambique. ...