Mozambique - Family Farming Income Enhancement Project

The proposed project is in line with the Bank’s vision and the Government of Mozambique’s strategy of poverty reduction. It's targeted towards a very poor section of Maputo Province’s rural population with an estimated per capita income of US$ 20, in order to increase its agricultural production, raise its household food security and incomes, and improve its livelihood. The project is implemented in Maputo Province, which has a relatively low rainfall and a high pressure on land due to a high population density. The proposed project should contribute to the Government’s sector goal by addressing some of the constraints to agricultural development. These include: (i) irrigation to address the constraint of low and erratic rainfall; and (ii) support to General Union of Cooperatives (UGC) so that it may provide extension services to beneficiaries on crop and poultry management, new and improved technologies, credit for input supply, marketing, and processing of poultry meat, and treatment of poultry diseases. The project should contribute, although to a very small percentage at the national level, to the economic growth required to reduce absolute poverty.