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Food crisis in Mozambique

• Food prices are rising relatively

faster than general prices

• 2007
• A sudden rise in prices occurred

(September)

• Begin of food crisis

Government response

• 2007 – Aprouval of the Green Revolution

strategy

• 2008 - Aprouval of the “2008- 2011

Action Plan for Food Production”

Government response

• AIM

– Sustainable increase of agricultural production at national level – Food auto-suficiency

• Through an intervention in all the segments of the

value chain

Government response

• Objective of the Action Plan

– To eliminate the deficit of the main

food products in 3 eyars –To decrease the dependency on imports

The Green Revolution Strategy

• Identified the 43 districts with higher

agricultural potential

• Identified the main food and cash crops

in Mozambique

The Green Revolution Strategy

• Aproache based on

– the potencial of the different agroecological zones identified – crosscutting issues more relevant for an increase of production and productivity