Climate change reduces livestock production in Mozambique

Producers of meat and meat products complain about losses resulting from the effects of climate change in the country. The increase in temperature in recent years, for example, has caused daily milk production to drop. On the second day of Mozambique's largest agribusiness fair, MOZGROW, the resilience and adaptation of agriculture to climate change was debated. According to the panelists, the effects of climate change have been “catastrophic”, causing great losses to producers. The rise in temperature was one of the problems presented by actors in the livestock sector. According to Rafael Escrivão, veterinarian and university professor, after Cyclone Idai, which hit the central region of the country in 2019, ...