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Abuja – Preventive health care has been identified as one of the major gaps in the animal health sector ecosystem. The immediate strategy to ameliorate the situation is to improve smallholder farmer’s access to animal healthcare services through capacity building of private veterinary paraprofessionals. This justifies the collaborative initiative of the...

Abuja - The FAO representative ad interim (a.i.) in Nigeria and to ECOWAS Mr. Koffy Dominique Kouacou paid a courtesy call to the Honorable Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, in his office on Tuesday, to formally meet with the minister to familiarize and firm the existing partnership.   The...

Abuja:  The government of Lagos state has committed USD4.322 million to upgrade the coconut value chain, with a view to contribute to the enhancement of the state’s economy and has signed a Unilateral Trust Fund (UTF) agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to implement the...

1 August 2023 - Abuja- A new Country Representative has been appointed for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Representation in Nigeria following the retirement of Fred Kafeero, he is Dominque Koffy Kouacou. Dominique Koffy KOUACOU is a national of Cote d’Ivoire and an Agronomic Engineer with...

Abuja - As anxiety over the emergence of anthrax outbreak in Nigeria heightens, following the report of two recently confirmed cases in Lagos State, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) have strengthened their partnership to check and...