Advancing gender equity and climate resilience through baobab fruit value chains

This case study explores how the commercialisation of baobab fruit in northern Mozambique is creating new opportunities for rural women while strengthening climate resilience. Across rural Africa, non-timber forest products like baobab are essential to daily life, providing food, income and cultural value. Yet these activities are often informal and undervalued, limiting their potential to support women’s empowerment.

At the same time, communities in Mozambique face increasing climate pressures, including droughts, cyclones and declining agricultural productivity, which heighten vulnerability and economic insecurity. Built through a long-term partnership between the Micaia Foundation and Baobab Products Mozambique (BPM), it shows how inclusive business models can transform both livelihoods and social dynamics.