CVRD to resettle families off Mozambique coal mine

(Reuters) - Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce plans to spend $30 million to resettle 1,200 families occupying a mining site in Mozambique, clearing the way for development of the project, a newspaper reported on Monday.

"We have our teams working in the district of Inhangoma to demarcate the areas where the local population would be resettled in a process to be concluded before the end of the year," CVRD official Andre Vasconcelos was quoted as saying by Noticias, a daily newspaper in Mozambique.


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Mozambique says farm support plan to boost food output

(Reuters) - Mozambique's government on Wednesday launched a $50 million agricultural subsidy programme designed to raise the southern African nation's food production and cut its dependency on imports and humanitarian aid.

"We are banking on improved seeds, fertilizer and crop rotation to produce enough food for Mozambicans by 2014," Jose Gaspar, the national director of Mozamibique's Agriculture Extensions programme, said.


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