Crop income is the predominant source of income for most rural Mozambican households, accounting for 73% of rural household income on average in 2002, and greater than 80% of the total income of the poorest 40% of rural households. While the Government of Mozambique recognizes the need to...

Este articulo presenta la evolucion de los principales indicadores de la agricultura mozambiquena entre 1975 y 2009, con el objetivo de evaluar de que forma las politicas economicas y agrarias practicades concuerdan con el discurso politico acerca del papel de la agricultura en el desarrollo y...

This study examines how extreme weather in the context of on-going economic shocks influence regional inequality and polarization within Mozambique. Utilizing satellite-based estimates of rainfall that we spatially analyze within a GIS, we establish a 16-year rainfall climatology and calculate...

Institute of Agricultural Research of Mozambique Directorate of Training, Documentation, and Technology Transfer

With cotton sector reform in much of SSA a decade old, it is now possible to review the empirical record and begin drawing lessons from experience. This paper assesses the record of five countries in southern and eastern Africa: Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique. In four of...

Prepared for the Comesa policy seminar on “Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”, Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010 under the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)

Moçambique possui uma grande diversidade de recursos florestais, sendo que estes, são de extrema importância para o desenvolvimento económico, social e ambiental, através da geração de emprego, fornecimento de energia e outros benefícios. Cerca de 80% da população moçambicana depende...