Community restaurants to combat malnutrition in Mozambique – Video

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Community restaurants to combat malnutrition in Mozambique – Video

6:32 CAT | 07 Jun 2016

Notícias / First Lady of Mozambique, Isaura Nyusi

The first lady’s office is developing a community restaurant project to combat malnutrition in Mozambique and improve the quality of life of poor citizens by fostering healthy eating habits in the country’s urban centres, it was announced yesterday.

The project’s first workshop was presented by Isaura Nyusi in Maputo yesterday. The project’s partners are the World Bank, the World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization.

“We believe that this is another way to combat poverty in the country,” Isaura Nyusi said, noting that Mozambique is the first country in southern Africa to implement the project.

The project, which is also being trialled in Brazil, will have a three-year pilot phase, the first year of which will consist of feasibility studies, with two years for implementation.

According to the Brazilian ambassador in Mozambique, Rodrigo Soares, besides improving the quality of nutrition, the initiative stimulates family farming and contributes to development in rural areas.

“I am sure that we will be able to overcome the challenges and add to our ability to fight poverty in Mozambique,” the diplomat said, adding that, if Brazil were anything to go by, the success of the project was guaranteed.

Yesterday’s workshop in Maputo brought together staff of the Mozambican government and foreign experts from the food and nutrition area for three days to discuss implementation.

According to a recently published Rural Areas Observatory study, a third of families in Mozambique suffer from chronic food insecurity because of poverty, with 48 percent of children in isolated areas, the worst affected segment of the population, suffering from chronic malnutrition.