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<title>FAO and Italy support agricultural statistics production in Mozambique </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-02</dc:date>
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Maputo:&nbsp; The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Italian government Monday in Maputo are due to make official their support for statistical production in Mozambique, particularly agricultural statistics, Mozambican newspaper Not&iacute;cias reported.The daily said that no figures were given for the deal with the National Statistics Institute (INE) but noted that the INE was focused on carrying out the agri-livestock census which includes gathering, processing and publishing statistical data on the agricultural sector...]]></description>
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<title>Mozambique: Government restates commitment to Eiti</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-15</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp; Mozambique's Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources, Abdul Razak Noormahomed, on Friday reiterated the government's commitment to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
Mozambique was accepted as an EITI candidate country in May 2009, and a Coordinating Committee has been set up to implement the Initiative in Mozambique, consisting of four representatives of the government, four from civil society, and four representatives of mining and oil companies...]]></description>
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<title>Lower Limpopo irrigation company created</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp;&nbsp; The Mozambican government approved on Tuesday a decree to establish the Lower Limpopo Irrigation System Public Company in the southern province of Gaza province, as part of its efforts to develop the agricultural economy.
The Government spokesperson, Deputy Justice Minister Alberto Nkutumula, explained to reporters that the new company has the task of rendering services to agriculture in the irrigated perimeter of Xai-Xai district, and stimulate the emergence of a business community through links with sustainable markets...]]></description>
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<title>Japanese seek to exploit Nacala Development Corridor</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-04</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Japanese entrepreneurs are considering use of the Nacala Development Corridor in coming years to access coal from Moatize, extracted in the district of the same name in Tete province.A Japanese business delegation in Maputo to take part in a business seminar last weekend visited the Nacala Development Corredor, which includes the Nacala port in Nampula province...]]></description>
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<title>Bank of Mozambique calls for prudence despite recovery of the economy</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-29</dc:date>
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Maputo:&nbsp; The governor of the Bank of Mozambique, Ernesto Gove, Wednesday called on the country's government to be prudent in its financial management, despite optimistic forecasts for world economic performance from this year onwards.
Speaking at the opening of the 24th executive Council of the Bank of Mozambique, which began Wednesday in Maputo, Gove noted that, following the world financial crisis, projections for economic performance for this year were optimistic, but those indicators "should be viewed with some caution...]]></description>
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<title>Mozambique aims to establish regional strategy against “uncontrolled slash and burn"  </title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-28</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp;&nbsp; Mozambique Monday called for joint strategies to be drawn up by countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to combat &ldquo;the tradition of uncontrolled slash and burn&rdquo; in agriculture, warning of the environmental damage the custom causes.The need to coordinate efforts in the fight against &ldquo;uncontrolled slash and burn&rdquo; that is so common in African societies for agriculture, was reiterated Monday at a seminar in Maputo about natural disasters, attended by representatives of 15 SADC countries...]]></description>
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<title>Mozambique:  Law needed on right to food</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-21</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp;&nbsp; Mozambique's Food and Nutritional Security Technical Secretariat (SETSAN) is preparing to submit to the government a draft bill on the Right to Adequate Food before the end of this year.&nbsp; This is one of the goals of the Food and Nutritional Security Strategy (ESAN II) approved by the government in 2007...]]></description>
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<title>Guebuza:  Mozambique already a victim of climate change</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-21</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp; Mozambique is already a victim of climate change, "but we cannot just wait for a world agreement before we act", declared Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Tuesday.
Speaking after swearing the 11 provincial governors into office, Guebuza said that among the challenges they would face are the natural disasters to which Mozambique is exposed, such as droughts, floods and cyclones, which are likely to occur with greater frequency, due to the effects of global warming...]]></description>
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<title>Guebuza announces new government</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-19</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp;&nbsp; Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Saturday appointed former Education Minister Aires Ali as Prime Minister in his new government.&nbsp; The appointment comes two days after Guebuza was sworn into his second term of office, following his overwhelming victory in the presidential election of 28 October...]]></description>
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<title>Mozambique: Tax collection beats targets</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-12</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp;&nbsp; The Mozambican Tax Authority (AT) has announced that in 2009 it collected more than 47 billion meticais (1.7 billion dollars, at current exchange rates) in tax revenue - which was two per cent more than the target set in the 2009 Budget Law.
Last year's tax revenue was equivalent to 17...]]></description>
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<title>Mozambique voids biofuel contract</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-06</dc:date>
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Maputo:&nbsp; Mozambique's government has voided a 2007 contract with Procana to begin ethanol production from sugar.&nbsp; Agencia Informacao Mocambique reported&nbsp;that the renewable-fuel project centered on a proposed 30,000 hectare sugar plantation at Massingir, in the country's southern Gaza province...]]></description>
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<title>Maputo mayor calls for action on climate change</title>
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<dc:date>2009-11-12</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp; Maputo Mayor David Simango says&nbsp;the city needs urban planning that includes measures to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change.&nbsp; Addressing the opening session of a meeting of a consultative group to implement the initiative "Cities and Climate Change", Simango said that climate change poses serious challenges to Maputo, and urban planning is among the top priorities for the management and governance of the city...]]></description>
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<title>Mozambique sees 2009/2010 farm output rising 10%, Noticias says </title>
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<dc:date>2009-10-28</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; Mozambique expects agricultural production to increase 10 percent in the 2009-2010 season amid the expectation of good rains, Noticias reported today, citing Agriculture Minister Soares Nhaca.&nbsp;&nbsp; The ministry expects an 11 percent gain in cereal production, a 4 percent increase in legumes and an 8 percent expansion in cassava output, the Maputo-based newspaper reported...]]></description>
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<title>Investments in silviculture create jobs in Niassa, Mozambique </title>
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<dc:date>2009-10-15</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp; Almost 3,000 jobs, including permanent and seasonal positions, have been created in Mozambique&rsquo;s NIassa province over the last five years due to investments in silviculture, according to Mozambican newspaper Not&iacute;cias.Noting that NIassa province has a forestry potential of an estimated 676,000 hecatres, the paper said that the companies Chikweti Forest, Funda&ccedil;&atilde;o Malonda, Florestas do Niassa, Green Resources and New Forest Malonda were involved in reforestation for commercial purposes...]]></description>
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<title>IFAD approves $50 mln loan for Mozambique agriculture</title>
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<dc:date>2009-09-25</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp; The U.N.'s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has approved a $50 million loan for Mozambique to boost agricultural in the southern African country, an senior official said on Thursday.
&nbsp;
IFAD country director Custodio Mucavele told Reuters the money would be disbursed in November, and that the deal had already been signed...]]></description>
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