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.
Cassava Commercialization in Mozambique. Cynthia Donovan, Steven Haggblade, Venâncio Alexandre Salegua, Constantino Cuambe, João Mudema, and Alda Tomo. International Development Working Paper No. 120. December 2011.
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
MSU in Agriculture in Mozambique. Presented by Cynthia Donovan for the MSU team. Platform for Agricultural Research and Innovation in Mozambique. Annual Meeting. IIAM, Maputo. 22 November 2011.
Smallholder Maize Marketing in Mozambique, Kenya and Zambia. Duncan Boughton, D. Mather and T.S. Jayne. “Dialog on Promotion of Agricultural Growth” Workshop, Maputo, Mozambique. Organized by the Economics Directorate of The Ministry of Agriculture and in collaboration with MozSAKSS and Michigan State University. July 21, 2011.
Comportamento dos Preços de Produtos Alimentares: Implicações para Moçambique (Food Price Behavior and Implications for Mozambique).
Duncan Boughton, David Tschirley, and David Mather. Presentation to the Fifth Coordination Council Meeting for senior management of the Ministry of Agriculture in Vila Ulongwe, Mozambique, August 4th, 2011.
Benson, Todd, B. Cunguara, and Tewodaj Mogues. 2012. The supply of inorganic fertilizers to smallholder farmers in Mozambique: Evidence for fertilizer policy development. A research report produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) with the support of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).
Cunguara, B., J. Hanlon. 2012. Whose wealth is it anyway? Mozambique’s outstanding economic growth with worsening rural poverty. Development and Change. 2012, 43(3).
Cunguara, B. 2012. An exposition of development failures in Mozambique. Review of African Political Economy. 39(131):161-70.
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.
