Maputo, 25 Jul (AIM) – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (FIDA) has disbursed about 4.2 million dollars to support food security, as well as increase incomes for households located in the remote regions of Mozambique.
The support, according to the Maputo daily “Notícias”, was assured by a memorandum of understanding, signed between FIDA and the Mozambican Government, during the visit of the Norwegian Minister of Integrated Development, Anne Tvinnerein, to Mozambique.
According to Tvinnerein, who also visited 129 farmers in Moamba district, in Maputo Province, there is a need to continuously support smallholder farmers and to invest in the value chain in order to boost food security in African countries and provide more incomes for households.
For her part, the FIDA director for East and Southern Africa, Sara Mbagobhunu, said that “the agency is actively promoting food production and diversity, as well as promoting the increase in incomes and jobs.”
The United Nations has recently revealed that there are about 700 million people suffering from hunger in the world, and this undermines the goals and efforts designed to end hunger by 2030, under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
(AIM)
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