In Mozambique, 80% of the rural population depends on farming as primary income. To obtain food security, the small scale farmers must play a major role.

Food security, food production and environment protection are closely linked and are important not only for the farmers ...

directly affected, but also for the society at large. This affects the capacity of the farmers to improve living conditions for children and create opportunities for the children to develop and use their full potential. The farmers need to learn better farming methods, and they need to be integrated in the economy of their country.

With climate change having more and more consequences, the environment is threatened at a new level, and the struggle for the immediate food security and for making a surplus food production intensifies.

Community Development

Integrated Community Development has been a priority of ADPP since its inception. ADPP has been developing comprehensive actions in this respect through its Child Aid program, which is presently being implemented in 4 provinces. The Child Aid model represents an integrated model using a family-centered approach; supporting children through the involvement of all sectors of the community including HIV & AIDS, malaria campaigns, education, hygiene, water and sanitation, nutrition, and income generation. At present, ADPP reaches 12,000 families with vital interventions, 4,000 children through pre-schools and 10,500 adults through literacy campaigns.

Food Security

Within the sector of agriculture, ADPP’s primary goal is to “increase food security for rural populations through training in conservation farming” and “reduce population’s vulnerability to climate change”. ADPP has been implementing a Farmers Club program during the past 6 years, which has reached 12,450 farmers in 7 provinces with skills programs to improve crop yields, enable low-cost irrigation, diversify crops, unify marketing and transport costs, and creating surplus income for the families to alleviate poverty. This program has brought much success for the farmers where many of them have increased their production with more than 40%.

Cashew Center and Rural Development in Itoculo

With the same objective in mind, ADPP started the Cashew and Rural Development Center in Itoculo with the mission of training small farming producers and cashew producers to improve their farming production capacity and the processing of their products, as well to improve their economic situation.

Bio Fuel Center in Bilibiza

The Farmers Club program has expanded in 2007 to include a bio fuel project, which has introduced jatropha for bio fuel’s production and when planted as a live fence around crop fields for protection against local wildlife.

A partnership between ADPP Mozambique, FACT (Fuels from Agriculture and Communal Technology) and the Ministry of Agriculture is trying to give an alternative to the high prices of fuel through the Bio Fuel Center in Bilibiza.