FAO in Rwanda

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05 February 2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Rwanda through Rwanda Development Board (RDB), have signed a Technical Cooperation Programme Project (TCP/RWA/3706) aimed to digitalize commerce in agricultural value chains. The two year project “Support Local suppliers’ capacity development and promotion of online trading in...
30 January 2020
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the government of Rwanda have launched a new project to support farmers that were severely affected by floods in Kirehe District that destroyed crops.   The disasters that struck the district late last year, submerged more than 50 hectares...
29 January 2020
The Government of Rwanda and One UN in Rwanda, today launched a new project aimed to support Rwanda’s efforts towards ending poverty in all its forms and reduce malnutrition. The two-year programme “Accelerating Integrated Policy Interventions to Promote Social Protection in Rwanda” will target the most vulnerable households in five districts;...
22 November 2019
Recent findings on the threats of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)’s State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture and the global assessment report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services have put agriculture at...
20 November 2019
Gender equality is central to the mandate of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to achieve food security for all by raising levels of nutrition, improving agricultural productivity and natural resource management, and improving the lives of rural populations. Current data indicate that about 45 percent of...