Maksym Subkh, Ukraine’s special representative for the Middle East and Africa. Image: Andisiwe Makinana War-torn Ukraine wants to increase investments and expand its grain exports to more African countries. The country’s economy has been ravaged after the invasion by Russia. Since Ukraine gained independence in 1991, its focus in Africa has been on northern and eastern ...

Image: African Development Bank What You Need to Know: A “Project for Improving the Inclusive and Sustainable Development of Agricultural Value Chains” ( MAIS VALOR II) has been drawn up this week between the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Mozambican Ministry of Industry and Commerce, who signed a memorandum of understanding this ...

The Government of Mozambique recently convened the first Niassa Investment Forum to attract public and private investment to Niassa Province, with a focus on developing the northern province’s agribusiness and energy sectors. The Forum, supported by the African Development Bank, brought together around 200 participants, including representatives from the public and private sectors, financial institutions, ...

Mozambique: Africa Fertilizer The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism will extend a $2 million partial trade credit guarantee and an  $877,980 grant to the African Fertilizer Agribusiness Partnership(link is external) to support the distribution of 60,000 metric tons of fertilizer to 300,000 smallholder farmers in Mozambique’s Tete, Manica, Sofala and Gaza provinces. The emergence of large ...

By Business A.M. Mozambique has joined the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) as the 27th African country with a commitment to offer coffee lovers around the world environmentally friendly and socially sustainable coffee, a statement by the ICO has said. The signing ceremony was attended by Celso Correia, the country’s minister of agriculture and rural development ...

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. ...