Africa: Universities partner to grow edible greens in Mozambique cities
Examples of such innovations are anticipated to include community gardens – containing fast-maturing food trees such as Moringa, fruit and nut trees, and nutritionally dense crops like orange-fleshed sweet potato – vertical greening garden structures, urban beekeeping
Farmers Review Africa
January 23, 2023
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The Irish Ambassador in Maputo, Mozambique Patrick Empey last week launched an Irish Research Council funded project, in partnership with Irish Aid, under the Collaborative Alliances for Societal Challenges programme that will bring urban community gardens and urban beekeeping in the country’s cities.
Mozambique aims to investigate co-created, socially inclusive ‘edible Urban Green Infrastructure’ (UGI) as a strategy to support food security and climate resilience in two rapidly growing cities in Mozambique.
The project was devised as low income and vulnerable households, social groups, and communities living in rapidly growing cities across Africa face concurrent challenges of maintaining food security whilst coping with the impacts of climate change.
Launching the project, Irish Ambassador Empey said: “I welcome this new partnership between UCD and the UEM in Mozambique, supported under the IRC-COALESCE initiative. The SYNERGI project (Socially Inclusive Edible Urban Green Infrastructure) aims to strengthen educational institutional links and promote urban food production.
“Sustainable Food Systems, centred on women and young people, are key to building community resilience to climate change and opportunities for improved family nutrition in the most vulnerable communities.”
