FAO in Ethiopia

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28 September 2016
The Ethiopian Government’s commitment to improving the nutrition needs of the country is reflected in its National Nutrition Strategy and Program developed since 2008. In the revised National Nutrition Program, nutrition-sensitive agriculture is prioritized as one of its objectives recognizing the role of the agriculture sector to improve nutrition.  It...
15 September 2016
Climate-related phenomena like El Niño and La Niña, have, in the last several decades, increased both in frequency and ferocity, hitting global agriculture with a blunt and brutal force. Typically, once every ten years, El Niño events now occur in regions like East Africa   
01 September 2016
The Government of Ethiopia is committed to scaling up the system nationwide A web-based monitoring system, a collaborative partnership project between the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the Government of Ethiopia to strengthen the planning, monitoring and evaluation programme of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural...
18 August 2016
South Sudanese refugees and host communities will benefit from the support 18 August 2016. Gambella. A project that aimed to support the energy needs of over 200 000 South Sudanese refugees in five camps and host communities has been launched by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Ethiopia’s Gambella...
17 August 2016
$45 million additional funding urgently needed to support Ethiopian agriculture