Women farmers sort beans by color in Quelimane, Mozambique. These women are part of a new in-grower scheme with agroforestry firm Grupo Madal and supported by the USAID Integrated Land and Resource Governance program. About 50,000 people have been farming on Madal’s underutilized landholdings. Rather than evicting these farmers, Madal has granted approximately 4,000 of them (85 percent women) land use rights and farming contracts under a pilot, providing farmers with inputs such as coconut saplings, cowpeas, maize, and peppers and extension support, with a guaranteed purchase by the company. Integrating women into commercial supply chains supports women’s economic empowerment, household well-being, and improved productivity. Quelimane was recently hit by Cyclone Idai, making these livelihood opportunities even more important to help families rebuild.
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Anchá Vasco holds up heads of lettuce from her grower plot on agroforestry firm Grupo Madal lands in Quelimane, Mozambique. About 50,000 people have been farming on Madal’s underutilized landholdings. Rather than evicting these farmers, Madal has granted approximately 4,0000 of them (85% women) land use rights and farming contracts under a USAID pilot, providing farmers with inputs such as coconut saplings, cowpeas, maize, and peppers and extension support, with a guaranteed purchase by the company. Quelimane was recently hit by Hurricane Idai, making these livelihood opportunities even more important to help families rebuild. Post cyclone, Madal helped farmers like Anchá replant horticulture plots so they would have some income for the 2023 growing season. As climate change puts increasing pressure on smallholder farmers, innovative partnerships with the private sector can help farmers diversify their livelihoods and have a guaranteed source of income each season.
Plastic bags in Mozambique, both light and heavyweight, are one of the most lethal killers of marine life. Small animals, such as fish, get entangled in plastic and drown.
Recycling can conserve natural resources. Recycling is an important factor in conserving natural resources and greatly contributes towards improving the environment. Recycling conserves natural resources, such as wood, water, minerals, and fossil fuels, because materials can be reused.
The man Called tofo, lives in beira-mozambique with disabilities he gets many important rights in the area of transportation. If you have a disability, you are entitled to the same right to use and enjoy public transportation as people without disabilities.
but the public buses need to be accessible to those with desabilities.
Drivers need to announce their stops out loud to benefit visually impaired persons who ride the bus.
Rabeca, woman of her early sixties years old, resident in the city of Beira in Mozambique who loves knowledge, she seeks to learn and be apart from the most outstanding issues in society through the newspaper. Life so early took away the possibility of going to school but the taste for learning continued intact inside. On a quiet morning of February 20, 2022 my eyes landed on the Lady Fiddle in her noble workplace embracing the newspapers that the press beauty gifted him, my eyes gazed at the living museum full of stories by tell, but the most beautiful story I saw was stamped on the face of her little granddaughter who She gracefully listened to grandmother reading the most prominent society updates in newspaper.
Cassava is a lifeline for families affected by extreme weather events in many communities in rural Mozambique.
Water scarcity is a common challenge in the district of Funhalouro, Mozambique. Fetching water is commonly viewed as the responsibility of women. In some communities, women walk more than 20km round trip to get drinking water. Many girls have sacrificed their futures in the relentless pursuit of drinking water.
This photo was taken on October 21, 2021, in the city of Chimoio, Manica Province in Mozambique.
This woman is a beneficiary of the RAMA-BC project, Resilient Agricultural Market Activities- Beira Corridor, which aims to produce vermicompost fertilizer in communities to fertilize home gardens and generate extra income. The RAMA-BC project is funded by USAID Feed the Future and implemented by Land O'Lakes Venture37. RAMA-BC's local implementation partners include the Municipal Council of Chimoio and the Center for Research and Technology Transfer for Community Development of Manica. The woman pictured is harvesting vermicompost for her vegetable garden to transform it into organic waste. Vermicompost makes the soil more productive, allowing it to hold water like a sponge, and this combats drought and climate change.
Xitiku illustrates the use of a discarded plastic bag in preparing the fire used to cook food. People burning plastic and other types of waste to make it disappear is a very common practice in urban and rural Mozambique. Air pollution is almost always ignored. This practice pollutes the air and can cause climate change. It can also cause skin problems and respiratory problems.
The photo was taken in September 2021, in Manhiça district, Maputo province, Mozambique.
In Mozambique, plastic bags are the preferred packaging of products in the informal market. In the case of the charcoal trade, plastic bags are used to pack the coal, and when the coal arrives at a home, this plastic becomes the raw material used to make a fire. This practice contributes to air pollution.
This photo was taken in July 2022, in Manhiça district, Maputo province, Mozambique.
Plastic materials take a long time to decay. Their disposal in the oceans can damage the health of aquatic animals and the humans who consume them. On land, these plastics can cause land degradation. This image illustrates a series of plastics found on a beach in Maputo City. The image demonstrates the resistance of plastic.
The photo was taken in May 2022 in Marginal, Maputo City, Mozambique.
Plastic in drainage ditches is a great danger to public health. The water condition degrades, the environment changes, the smell changes, and mosquitoes, cockroaches, and rats appear.
This photo was taken in April 2022 at Sommershield Neighborhood in Maputo City, Mozambique.
While plastic is a danger to the environment and public health, many people rely on plastic as a source of income. They collect, market, or recycle plastic, ultimately reducing plastic pollution.
This photo was taken in Maputo City, Mozambique, in November 2021.
A community member and her neighbors plant coconut tree saplings on their plots on the agribusiness firm Grupo Madal’s land in Zambezia province, Mozambique as part of a coconut agroforestry initiative. Greater tenure security is a prerequisite for land-based climate change mitigation efforts, for communities must have the rights to manage and benefit from improved land use. Prior to USAID support, this community member and 1,300 farmers (85% women) were informally farming on the company’s land, often on plots less than a quarter hectare. With support from the USAID Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG) program, Grupo Madal granted these farmers land use agreements and farming contracts, allowing them to enter Madal’s supply chain as commodity growers for crops like beans and coconuts. Each farmer was given a larger plot, allowing them to grow their own food for household consumption alongside crops for Madal. The farmers were provided with inputs like seeds and fertilizer and agricultural extension services to train them in sustainable agroforestry practices. By intermixing coconut trees with subsistence crops, these farmers are improving soil quality and creating a sustainable ecosystem for agroforestry generation for years to come. By giving landless farmers land use rights, they are less likely to clear-cut new land for agricultural expansion.
A farmer plants a eucalyptus sapling on a plot in Zambezia province, Mozambique. USAID is helping communities and the private sector to partner in combating climate change. Following years of large scale land acquisitions to grow commercial timber on degraded lands across Africa, multi-national forestry firm Green Resources has started a process to relinquish a substantial portion of its land in Mozambique and support communities to register their land rights, with technical assistance from USAID’s Integrated Land and Resource Governance program. Communities gain skills to manage forest plantations for community livelihoods and climate change mitigation goals and to-date over 230,000 hectares of land in Mozambique have been relinquished. Many of these parcels had standing timber on them, so the company is helping communities manage these resources in a sustainable manner. This includes providing communities with technical support to care for trees so they can be a renewable source of community wealth, and helping them set up viable timber off-take businesses. This partnership is providing communities with improved tenure security, expanded economic opportunities, enhancing forest management capabilities, and promoting strong local development for years to come.