Strengthening Mozambique's Capacity for Agricultural Policy Analysis, Productivity, Growth and Poverty Reduction
Projecto de Apoio ao Fortalecimento da Capacidade em Análise de Políticas, Produtividade Agrícola, Crescimento Económico e Redução da Pobreza em Moçambique
MSU has
worked with the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG) in Mozambique since
1991 to increase MINAG's capacity to formulate and implement facilitative
agricultural sector policies, strategies, and institutional reforms.
Since 2004, assistance has also been provided to the National Agricultural
Research Institute (IIAM). The twin goals of the current project are
to expand the availability of appropriate crop, livestock and natural-resource
management technologies for smallholder farmers, and to accelerate
the uptake of those technologies by strengthening policy institutions
and market information services. The project seeks to achieve this
goal through formal and on-the-job training in the identification of
priority policy issues, collection and timely analysis of relevant
information, and prompt dissemination of actionable results to managers
and policy makers.
Research
Reports: over 70 have been produced, most of them published
and downloadable in both English and Portuguese. Top
IIAM
Prospects for BT Cotton In Mozambique. Raul Pitoro, Tom Walker, David Tschirley, Scott Swinton, Duncan Boughton, and Higino de Marrule. IIAM-DFDTT Research Report No. 5E. June 2009.
Policy
Presentations: in collaboration with its partners in MINAG,
IIAM and USAID/Mocambique, MSU maintains an active policy outreach
program. In addition to presentations by project personnel, MSU has
assisted
MINAG and IIAM leadership in preparing presentations for both local
and international policy fora. Top
Food Prices Swings: the Case of Mozambique. Helder Zavale, Anabela Mabote, Antonio Paulo, Cynthia Donovan and Gilead Mlay. Presented at the FAO Workshop on: Policies for the Effective Management of Food Prices Swings in African Countries, held in Maputo, June 23-24, 2009.
Exploring the Logic Behind Southern Africa’s Food Crises. T.S. Jayne and David Tschirley. Presented at the Symposium on The Food and Financial Crisis and their Impacts on Achievement of the Millennium Development Goads in Africa. Institute for African Development. Cornell University. 2 May 2009
Mather, David, and Cynthia Donovan. 2007. The Impacts of Prime-age Adult Mortality on Rural Household Income, Assets, and Poverty in Mozambique. Report for World Bank/Mozambique.
SIMA
(Agricultural Marketing System of Mozambique) Top
MSU has
assisted MINAG since 1991 in implementing an Agricultural Market Information
System (SIMA). SIMA produces weekly (Quente-Quente) and monthly bulletins
(Boletím Mensal). You'll find domestic prices of 25 products
in 27 producer, wholesale, and retail markets throughout the country,
plus regional and international prices of selected commodities, and
market commentary.
SIMA
Web site - Full set of SIMA and SIMA Provincial (SIMAP) Publications
and presentations.
