FAO in Ethiopia

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29 January 2017
FAO calls for immediate response to prevent catastrophe due to severe drought Farmers in the Horn of Africa need urgent support to recover from consecutive lost harvests and to keep their livestock healthy and productive.  
17 January 2017
FAO targets pastoralists in southern regions facing failed rains on heels of a calamitous El Niño
09 January 2017
In cooperation with the Global Good Fund, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has handed more than 5000 Mazzi™ containers that provide clean and effective storage of milk, to the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries. The Ministry will distribute the containers to farmers in eight regions of...
15 December 2016
Food fair stirs awareness about pulses.   Over eight million Ethiopian smallholder farmers grow food legumes on 1.7 million hectares of land mainly for household consumption, cash income and animal feed. The Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) organized  “national forage and food legume research and development review conference with the running...
08 December 2016
FAO and the European Commission (EC) organized a national level learning forum focusing on strengthening coordination mechanisms for resilience building for key stakeholders working on resilience on October 7-8 2016 here in Addis Ababa. “We are developing a greater vision of what we are seeking to accomplish, if we figure out how to...