Mozambican smallholders are some of the most climate vulnerable in the world, and Mozambique ranks the fifth country most affected by climate change. Fifty years ago, the country was hit by a cyclone around once a decade – more recently, this has risen to three per decade, with the country battered by four cyclones in the last three years alone (and cyclone intensity is increasing too). Added to this, in recent years rural families have faced multiple other shocks including COVID-19, commodity price volatility, a violent insurgency rapidly spreading in the northern provinces and, now, the knock-on effects of supply chain crisis provoked by the war in Ukraine.
For the last decade our Norwegian Embassy funded PROMAC I and its follow-on PROMAC II programs have supported over 62,000 farmers in the central provinces to mitigate these and other risks. PROMAC is the country’s leading program promoting conservation agriculture practices as a means of weathering climate shocks, increasing smallholder income and food security, and promoting more sustainable agricultural practices that ensure the fertility of their land for future generations. PROMAC combines this with functional adult education, improved nutrition, access to input and off-take markets, and support to obtain legal land tenure (in turn, increasing farmers’ long turn, sustainable investments in their land).
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