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Mozambique
Climate conversations: Developing water-efficient maize for Africa
23 Jan 2012, AlertNet
'We are eager to move forward and start to use some of the products, especially conventional drought-tolerant maize lines, to develop an array of varieties in the country,' Godfrey Asea, a maize breeder and the WEMA-Uganda country coordinator told AlertNet...
National Platform
- National Policy & Plans
- Mozambique: Plano de acção para a prevenção e controlo às queimadas descontroladas2007, Min for Coordination of Environ Affairs, Mozambique - gov
- Mozambique: Plano de contingênciado sector de águas2010, Mozambique - gov
- Official Statements & Presentations
- Mozambique: Statement made at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (2009)2009, Min of Planning and Dev, Mozambique - gov
- Mozambique: Statement made at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (2007)2007, Mozambique - gov
- Other Development Reports
- Mozambique: Common country assessment - CCA (2000)2000, UNDG
- Mozambique: Poverty reduction strategy paper - PRSP (2009)2009, IMF; Mozambique - gov; WB
Human Exposure
| Hazard type | Population exposed |
Percentage of population  |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Cyclone | 233,559 |      |
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| Drought | 1,356,890 |  |
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| Flood | 114,760 |  |
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| Landslide | 568 |  |
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| Earthquake | 23,309 |     |
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| Tsunami | 8,540 |  |
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Source of data: 2009 Global Assessment Report |
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Top 5 Natural Disaster reported
| Disaster | Date | Affected | (no. of people) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drought | 1981 | 4,750,000 |  |
| Flood | 2000 | 4,500,000 | |
| Drought | 1991 | 3,300,000 | |
| Storm | 1994 | 2,502,000 | |
| Drought | 2005 | 1,400,000 | |
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Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database Data version: v11.08 *: Including tsunami Data displayed does not imply national endorsement. |
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Learning to live with floods: a guide to reduce vulnerability in areas susceptible to flooding2007, Mozambique - gov; UN-HABITAT
- Construir com os ventos: guiăo de construí para zonas de risco de ciclone2007, Natl Inst for Disaster Management, Mozambique - gov; UN-HABITAT
Environment and climate change policy brief: Mozambique - Generic outline2011, Sida; SLU; Univ of Goteborg
Rethinking support for adaptive capacity to climate change: The role of development interventions2011, ACCRA; CI; ODI; Oxfam GB; Save the Children Intl; WVI
- Mozambique: Changing weather patterns and livelihoods2010, DFID; Guardian, the
- River of hope: Adapting to a changing climate in Mozambique2010, DFID; Save the Children UK
- Bravos do Zambeze (disaster risk drama)2009, CMFD; IOM
- Disaster reduction and recovery specialist, P3Niger (Niamey), BCPR-UNDP
- Natural resources management and climate change advisorEthiopia (Addis Ababa), Save the Children U.S.
- Technical specialists - Resilience in the Limpopo river basinMozambique , ARD
Neighbouring Countries
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