Mozambique: Boost for the small farmer

In an effort to build a long-term source of food supplies in developing countries while boosting small-scale agriculture, the World Food Programme (WFP) will soon begin buying food from local farmers in Mozambique.

2 Jul 2008

Women prepare maize-meal for a WFP feeding programme for orphans in the Mozambican capital, Maputo. (Image: IRIN)

WFP spokesman Peter Transburg told IRIN that under the five-year Purchase for Progress Programme (P4P) launched in Mozambique earlier this year, the agency hopes to build a supplier base for cereals and pulses comprising at least 3,000 small-scale farmers in Mozambique. The programme will become fully operational by October 2008.

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