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Banjul – High pest and disease burden remain major constraints preventing The Gambia from achieving set national and global targets on food and nutrition security, poverty reduction and sustainable socio-economic growth and development. The country only produces half of its national requirement of staple foods to feed its estimated population...

On 3rd May, 2019, the Department of Livestock Services and FAO held the maiden graduation ceremony of the first batch of Agro-pastoral Field School (APFS) facilitators ever trained in The Gambia.  They successfully completed a course on APFS methodology, design, implementation, and evaluation that took place at  the Agricultural Rural...

12 April 2019, Banjul - The community of Kerr Ali Hawa in Jokadu District, North Bank Region have set out to consolidate the gains made by the EU funded by the Post-Crisis Response to Food and Nutrition Insecurity in The Gambia project in the community. In an interview with journalists, Demba...

7 January 2019, Banjul - The Food Technology Services (FTS) of the Department of Agriculture (DOA) has trained 80 rural farmers (78 female and 2 male) in the formulation, processing and preservation of cereal-legume based complementary foods for infants, young children, pregnant and lactating women using locally available ingredients. The...

10 December 2018, Banjul - In a bid to strengthen the capacity of vulnerable smallholder farmers to sustainably boost household food security, nutrition and income, FAO is providing seven communities in the NBR, CRR, URR and LRR with communal vegetables gardens. The intervention is funded through the project “Post-Crisis Response...