Towards resilient and profitable family farming systems in Central Mozambique
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This research improves our understanding of diversity across Mozambique’s family farming
systems in terms of local agro-ecological potentials, existing market opportunities and
production objectives as well as the household level resource endowments and farming
skills. We compare two sites in Central Mozambique: Manica District with higher
agroecological potential with semi-arid farms in Marara District. Using Innovation Platforms
we initiated a change process. Local actors defined site-specific development pathways for
promoting resilience and profitability: Collective marketing of common beans in Manica and
market-oriented livestock production in Marara. Farm typologies were used to direct future
investments according to farmers’ capacity within those overall pathways.
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