Maputo — Food security in Mozambique has greatly improved in recent years, Agriculture Minister Jose Pacheco claimed in Maputo on Thursday.
Addressing the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, he said the number of districts affected by food shortages had fallen from 60 (out of 128) in 2005, to 23 in 2012. The number of people lacking food security had fallen from 801,000 to 255,300.
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