A foreign woman who contracts matrimony to a Mozambican can acquire Mozambican citizenship.

AMODEFA Mozambican Association For Defense of Family

Andrade, Ximena (1997). A mulher Mozambican em números. Maputo, Mozambique. (No preto).

In 1950, the Mozambican population was of about 6.5 million inhabitants, having increased rapidly.

However, the same right is not conferred to a foreigner who marries a Mozambican woman.

The growth of the Mozambican population will depend on the rhythm of natural growth of the population.

Mozambican law confers equal rights to women in as far as citizen of their children is concerned.

This is our team in Mozambique one Tanzanian trainer, who transfers the skills to these three Mozambican fellows.

The agricultural sector presently represent 21 of absorption of the total credit made available to the Mozambican economy.

Given that the Mozambican society is currently changing, there are new challenges for which both men and women are not prepared yet.

The right of Mozambican Women to participate in the political and public life of the country is guaranteed by the country's Constitution.

In accordance with the data provided by INE (1998), about 62 of the Mozambican population aged 7 years and above is economically active.

Compared to the continental scale (with exception of Mauritius, which has more women Parliamentarians) and at the International level, Mozambican women in Parliament are fairly represented.

The Mozambican diligent woman has the right to be respected, dignified and employers are forbidden from dismissing her on the basis of discrimination or social exclusion.

In 1980 i.e., before the end of the decade of 80's, Mozambique had already 12,1 million inhabitants the Mozambican population had duplicated in relation the 1950.

In last decades, the Mozambican population has grown to a rhythm sped up by about 3,3 , caused by the formation of a considerable sector of vulnerable population.

Agricultural activity in Mozambique involves a large portion of the Mozambican active population, and women represent 63 and work in more sectors, both family and cooperative, and are responsible for food sustenance.

For example, if the average annual rate of natural growth becomes 1,5 , the current Mozambican population estimated at 16.5 million inhabitants in 1997, will reach about 25 million at the turn of year 2020.

Considering that the average annual rate of population growth in the period of 1960 1994 was 2.4 , these figures testify a significant decline in the standards of living of the Mozambican population in the last three decades.

Presently, there is a growing concern by the Mozambican for elimination of gender inequality and this is translated into the search, and elaboration of, policies and programs in the economic and social processes, in the context of gender equality.

Reference should be made to the fact that the Mozambican Government is involved in reforms based and contained in its 5 Year Program (1999 2004) which includes the incorporation of gender problems at the level of the agricultural sector.

This evolution shows a tendency toward the rejuvenation of the Mozambican population, which will have a great impact in offers of labor, because the group considered an active labor force (15 to 64 years) will have registered a significant reduction.

Regarding the future, the population trends will depend on two major factors on one hand, the impact that the young population strata will continue to have in the next decades about 47 percent of the Mozambican population has less than 15 years.

Equally, the Mozambican society as a whole must fight for a change in mentality at several levels, particularly at the grassroots level, because it is here that the Customary Right of women is ignored and, as a result women are discriminated most.

The objective of this is to be to define intervention rules of both the Government and the Civil Society, with a view to contributing to active participation of people with disabilities, in their communities and in the development of the Mozambican society.

For this, the report sins for amalgamating different actors including the government, thus diluting the final responsibility of the latter in relation to its role as supreme institution of the State in the protection, defense and promotion of the Statute of the Mozambican Women.

The IDS97 provides strong evidences on the existence of real changes in the reproductive behavior of Mozambican women the rural women currently have 0,7 children more than the urban women in 1980, this differential was of 1.2 children between the urban areas and the rural ones.

It is an instrument that will not only allow to improve the knowledge on the situation of women, but will stir up to the Government and the larger society to rethink and to strengthen partnerships in order to find reasonable solutions in the economic, social, cultural, and political fronts for women who constitute more than half of the Mozambican society.