| ID: | 28224 |
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| Country: | Mozambique |
| Title: | Mozambique - Pro-poor Value Chain Development Project in the Maputo and Limpopo Corridors of Mozambique – PROSUL - May 2013 |
| Description: |
Visit to a community who grows cassava nearby the town of Maita, Province of Inhambane, 23 May 2013. Felicidade Julai Chissico, aged 46, and her husband Jaime Zaias, aged 60, have 7 children and cultivate 8ha. Since Jaime lost his left arm in an ambush towards the end of the war, Felicidade does most of the work on their land, with help from the community. They plant cassava, beans and peanuts among other things. Felicidade can tell the wheather is changing, but she doesn’t know why. They would like a well, since the water source is too far. There are many challenges for them to increase their production: scares rains, market, and the diseases that hit the cassava. She explains me that when there is no rain, the cassava suffers from more pests infestations, which dissipate with the heat. They try to select only the healthy tubers for replanting. She would like to expand her production and sale at better prices, so that she can continue paying for her children’s school fees and materials. The yellow marks in the cassava leaves indicate the tubers are not healthy. PROSUL involves improvements in three value chains: irrigated horticulture, cassava and red meat. It will work on the trade corridors of the southern Provinces of Gaza, Inhambane and Maputo. It aims to reach 19550 beneficiaries, mostly economically active poor who are already involved in value chain production. The project goal is to establish improved and climate-smart livelihoods of small farmers in 19 selected districts of the Maputo and Limpopo corridors. The project entered into force in September 2012, and was officially launched on 17 April 2013 in XaiXai, Gaza. In order to document year zero of this first Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) project in Mozambique, the Environment and Climate Division (ECD) covered the costs of a consultant and cameraman to visit the PROSUL-ASAP project areas. |
| Size: | 4.61 MB; 3872 x 2592 pixels; 328 x 219 mm (print at 300 DPI); 1024 x 686 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Show more details: | Clarissa Baldin |
| Copyright: | ©IFAD/Clarissa Baldin |
| Categories: | none |
| URL: | www.ifad.org |
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