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UN staff build capacity on Environmental Mainstreaming for Development Programmes
Mozambique is a country endowed with rich of natural resources, including arable land in ten different agro-ecological zones (with only 12% being cultivated), hydropower and irrigation potential from its many rivers (still significantly underutilized), forests, fisheries, gas, and other subsoil assets (such as coal and heavy sands), protected areas, biodiversity with its many endemic species and the coastline for tourism development. According to World Bank estimates, the public revenues from natural resources (fisheries, forests, mining and agricultural land) can exceed 200 million USD in 2015 up from just 30 million USD seven years ago, provided that right reforms and stimulus are put in place.
