Fighting Disease:  Mozambique

Increasing Food Production

Like many countries in Africa, Mozambique has suffered from a shortage of rainfall, and this has affected food production in the main agricultural areas of the country, the Central and Northern regions. As a result of inadequate rainfall either delaying or preventing planting altogether in Mozambique, there have been major food shortages in the southern pockets of Sofala and Manica provinces, areas of Tete, and the coastal region of Nampula. However, thanks to efforts by The Carter Center and its partners, today less than 5 percent of the overall population has been affected.

The Carter Center began working with Mozambique's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in 1995 to increase food security. Led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Norman Borlaug until his death in 2009, the Sasakawa-Global 2000 Program was a joint venture between The Carter Center and the Sasakawa Africa Association that helped more than 8 million small-scale sub-Saharan African farmers improve agricultural production. Read full text >