Announcements
March 12, 2010
Symposium on Mozambique-Brazil-JICA Agricultural Project
A one-day symposium will be held March 17 at the U.N. University in Tokyo on a major joint project between Mozambique, Brazil and JICA to develop Mozambique's savannah grasslands for agricultural use.
The symposium will open at 10 a.m. and speakers will include the senior vice president and director of the Africa division of JICA and the agriculture and assistant agriculture ministers of Mozambique. There will be a panel discussion.
In the 1970s, Japan assisted Brazil in transforming its 'cerrados' or savannah grasslands into a vast breadbasket. They have now teamed together with Mozambique to undertake a similar transformation of the savannah regions of that southern African country and, hopefully transform that country's agricultural sector.
