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9:23 CAT | 07 Oct 2025
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The Brazilian government expressed its intention yesterday in Maputo to strengthen cooperation with Mozambique in the agricultural sector, considered a priority due to its importance to Mozambique’s future, with a view to supporting an Integrated Development Program.
“Brazil’s cooperation with Mozambique has more than one aspect. Agricultural cooperation is very significant given Brazil’s current status as a country with significant agricultural productivity, largely due to the development of seed, soil balancing, and irrigation technologies,” said Carlos Sérgio Sobral Duarte, Secretary for Africa and the Middle East at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Brazil’s Secretary for Africa and the Middle East was speaking on Monday after the first political consultation meeting between Mozambique and Brazil held by the current governments of each country, a meeting co‑chaired by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Mozambican Communities Abroad, Maria de Fátima Simão Manso, and himself.
According to Carlos Sérgio Sobral Duarte, Mozambique’s climate and soil conditions are similar to those of Brazil, making the transfer of agricultural technology “very relevant” and strategic for boosting national production: “Especially in the case of Mozambique, which has climate and soil conditions largely similar to those of Brazil.”
Bilateral cooperation, he continued, will also cover other strategic sectors, notably health and urban transportation, areas in which Mozambique has expressed interest in receiving technical support and establishing partnerships.
The Brazilian Secretary acknowledged interest in other sectors: “All of them can be improved and placed within the context of an Integrated Development Program for Mozambique that the Brazilian cooperation agency is already working on, so that we can also cooperate in this broader sense in terms of the country’s development.”
Trade, investment
Carlos Sérgio Sobral Duarte added that the two countries are studying the possibility of progressing with an investment facilitation agreement as trade and cooperation relations intensify, given the current “very small” bilateral trade, which could “grow much more,” given its potential.
“This will come naturally with the strengthening of Brazil’s relations with Mozambique in the areas of trade and investment,” he noted.
The authorities of both countries considered the meeting a milestone in strengthening the bilateral partnership and emphasised that agricultural cooperation will be central to Mozambique’s sustainable development, contributing to food security, job creation, and economic growth.
Source: Lusa
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