Zimbabwe: Mozambique's Agric Policies - Lessons for Zimbabwe

21 January 2016
The Herald (Harare)
analysis By Dr Gift Mugano

Given the apparently unsatisfactory performance of the centralised planning system, at the end of the 1980s, Mozambican government opted for the liberalisation of the market, with the support of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

A few years later, after the signing of the General Peace Agreement in 1992, there was a massive return of displaced individuals to their regions of origin, in most cases, rural ones. As a result, there was a relaunching of and growth in agricultural production, leading to the emerging perception within the government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) of a need for integrated action, principally with regard to marketing of agricultural products.

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