The memories of a boy who grew up in Maputo’s Magudi District may be key to protecting the integrity of the Zambezi.

Conclusion of an agreement over joint management is critical to resolving conflicts in the Incomati and Maputo river basins.

The Southern Africa region has made great strides in monitoring and responding to seasonal flooding, thanks in large measure to the growing strength of transboundary institutions.

On-again, off-again… it’s the story of both Malawi’s power supply and the interconnection project that could end blackouts with power imported from neighbouring Mozambique.

At Ekuvinjelweni village, in South Africa’s Mpumalanga Province, the Komati River flows clear and fast through the mountains

Davison Makanga inspects the ways sound management of shared water resources can strengthen development.

 

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The Mtengoumodzi Agriculture Cooperative was formed in April 2008 after farmers on either side of the border realised that they could complement each other’s efforts to improve agricultural activities.

Without agricultural development at the core of Africa’s progress, there will be no development on the continent.

Take your seats: the curtain has risen on a fresh strategy to link small farmers and policy-makers across Southern Africa. Theatre has been chosen as the means to explain agricultural policy to rural areas, and carry voices from the countryside back to the seats of power.

Theatre and agriculture are two words not often seen together. But they are stepping out in tandem across Southern Africa in support of raising farm productivity and incomes.

A play that will soon be put on for rural people and policy-makers alike was performed in Maputo at the week-long dialogue on agriculture policy organised by the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN).