Mozambique
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Cyclone Idai hits Agriculture in Beira Corridor: Preparing for the Future
May 1, 2019ESA: “This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image indicates where the flood waters are finally beginning to recede west of the port city of Beira in Mozambique. The image merges three separate satellite radar images from before the storm on 13 March, from one of the days when the floods were at their worst on 19 March, and… Read more »
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Food Security: Gender, Geography and Off-Farm Employment
September 24, 2018Eradicating hunger and achieving food security remains a key developmental issue, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the empirical literature focuses on agriculture-based interventions, although it is well known that rural households undertake a range of income-generating activities to provide a livelihood. A recent article published in the World Development journal uses panel data for… Read more »
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
For more detailed information about our research in Mozambique, download our country brochure. APRA is working in Mozambique to conduct quantitative and qualitative research to:
- Analyse how agricultural mechanisation is being promoted across Africa and what the effects of this have been on commercialisation pathways and processes of agrarian change;
- Examine how investment corridors are reshaping agricultural commercialisation pathways and rural livelihoods, looking at what the impacts have been – and for whom.
Contact Person: Cyriaque Hakizimana | chakizimana@plaas.org.za
