Mozambique: The Farmers Navigating Conflict, Climate Change and Covid

12 November 2021
analysis

Despite facing a triple threat with little government support, female farmers have proven surprisingly resilient.

On 15 October, Alcinda Zimba, 50, gathered with fellow female farmers in the southern Mozambican village of Marracuene. The smallholders, all members of the country's largest farmers' union, União Nacional de Camponeses (UNAC), had come together to celebrate International Day of Rural Women. But they also had much else to discuss.

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