From Tree to Trade: Cashews in Mozambique
This blog reflects highlights from a conversation with Sarah Heddon, Program Associate at Aga Khan Foundation. She recently visited Mozambique to oversee MozaCajú, a three-year project implemented jointly by TechnoServe and the Aga Khan Foundation with funding from U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cashews in Mozambique Mozambique is a nation flourishing with natural resources, and an economy that relies primarily on agriculture. […]
New Website Opens a Window to Mozambique’s Cashew Growers
For World Food Day we’re sharing the story of a fresh start for the tasty Mozambique cashew. After a troubled history, there’s renewed promise for Mozambican cashew farmers. For much of the 1900s Mozambique was famous worldwide for the taste and quality of the cashew nuts it produced. Then in the 1970s, civil war changed […]
Crisis to Opportunity: Grassroots Innovation for Food Security
Next in our series, Rooted in Resilience: From Crisis to Opportunity, is the story of how farm families grappling with hunger in a dry region of Africa came up with a way to improve their food security, and how that innovation spread throughout Mozambique. For more photos and stories, please download our 2013 annual report. A […]
Aga Khan Development Network Training Boosts Africa’s Support for Children Affected by HIV and AIDS
NAIROBI, KENYA, APRIL 7, 2014 – Children affected by HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa will have a chance for a better start in life and a more promising future because of the educational initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), in partnership with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. This new partnership, a joint venture between the two organizations, […]
A Day in the Life: Growing Food Security in Mozambique
Next, in our series, A Day in the Life of Our Communities is the story of Sulu, who starts work early as both an innovative farmer and an agriculture instructor. Sulu Abacar brings new ideas to growing food every morning. He grew up in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province, among the country’s poorest. At age […]
MozaCaju Supports Farmers and Cashew Processors in Mozambique
The Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA) entered into an agreement with TechnoServe for a three-year project in Mozambique that will help an estimated 29,500 smallholder cashew farmers and processors increase their productivity and competitiveness, and reduce poverty in the country. The $3.2 million program, with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), will: 1) train farmers in methods that […]
Upgrading the Bilibiza Agricultural Institute in Mozambique
Over the years the Aga Khan Foundation has worked with several partners to grow the capacity of the Bilibiza Agricultural Institute, which boosts the ability of the Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique to improve food security and enterprise. Hub for Innovation in Northern Mozambique The Ford Foundation has supported Bilibiza since 2009, with over $1 million in grants providing training, […]