Mozambique

The Republic of Mozambique has among the best records of sustained economic growth in Africa, averaging 7 percent per year over the last decade. However, poverty and undernutrition rates remain high in a country that is acutely vulnerable to drought, flooding and tropical storms.

Poverty and food insecurity are the main underlying causes in Mozambique of chronic undernutrition. Food availability is limited by low yields and inadequate access to markets for many citizens.

Mozambique is the second-largest formal exporter of food in the southern Africa region and could progress toward a trade surplus if regulation and agricultural practices improve. Its strategic location and trade corridors make the country a key player in regional and global food security.

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Projects in Mozambique

Measuring Resilience in the Presence of Poverty Traps

This MRR Innovation Lab project refines the technical definition of development resilience and proposes a measure for resilience that takes potential poverty traps into account.

Subsidizing Learning About Resilience-building Agricultural Technologies in Mozambique

This MRR Innovation Lab project in Mozambique is testing short-term subsidy and training programs for rural households to learn about stress-tolerant maize bundled with index insurance for a seed-replacement guarantee.

Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster in Mozambique

The MRR Innovation Lab is expanding an ongoing RCT to learn how communities recover from a disaster like Cyclone Idai and whether the program made communities more resilient and to extend USAID research on resilience measurement.

Savings, Subsidies and Sustainable Food Security: A Field Experiment in Mozambique

This research explores the short- and long-run impacts of fertilizer subsidies on smallholder farmers in Mozambique.

Health, Education, and Economic Interventions for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Mozambique

This project evaluates the health and overall outcomes of the orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) of Mozambique.

Bundling Innovative Risk Management Technologies to Improve Nutritional Outcomes of Vulnerable Agricultural Households

This project evaluates new agricultural technologies that stabilize crop yields and rural incomes in the face of environmental shocks that historically have led to decreased food intake and irreversible, long-term negative impacts especially among young children.

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Development Opportunity: Mozambique

32.1 : Population in millions (2021)
64.6% : Poverty rate at $2.15/day, 2017 PPP (2014)
20 : Rural population in millions (2021)
70% : Total employment in agriculture (2019)
33% : Prevalence of undernourishment (2020)
37.5% : Prevalence of stunting for children under 5 years (2020)

Source: World Bank

Mozambique Events

The Long-term Impacts of a Temporary Agricultural Input Subsidy in Mozambique

Sep 15, 2014

Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique, Maputo, Mozambique

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience