Dairy Development in Mozambique

demand and 2) increasing smallholder farmers ’ incomes through participation in a sustainable dairy value chain. The program provided training and improved dairy cows to households and supported the establishment of producer coopera-tives and milk collection centers in communities in Manica province. Dairy production is very limited in Mozambique because of unfavorable agroecological conditions and the civil war that ravaged the country from the late 1970s to early 1990s. Between 1980 and 2006 milk production in the country declined by 4 percent, from 71,500 to 68,800 tons. The country depends on daily imports of milk from South Africa and Europe (Dairy Mail Africa 2009). Land O’Lakes International Development, a division of Land O’Lakes, Inc., recently completed a program in central Mozambique to help restore the country’s dairy industry. This study by the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP) provides an assessment of the program’s impact, especially on women