FAO in Rwanda

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26 October 2017
On 26 October 2017, Rwanda celebrated the World Food Day event usually celebrated on the October 16 globally. The guest of honour was the country’s minister of agriculture and animal resources, Dr Gérardine Mukeshimana. Minister Mukeshimana encouraged industrialists to get involved in the process that will see increase in agricultural output to create...
18 October 2017
  Launtina Mukahirwa crosses the border every morning to sell isambaza fish from Lake Kivu in the border market of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Launtina is a small-scale cross-border trader with an experience of more than ten years under her cooperative CODEPEC. However, she is not earning much from her...
16 October 2017
  Uwimana Annonciata wakes up every day at 3am to go irrigate her crops with water from Yanze River, she is afraid that if she doesn’t get the water early she won’t be allowed to use it. She is also avoiding conflict with other farmers over water from the River. Annonciata’s district, Rulindo, is upstream in the Yanze River that supplies water to Kigali. The Yanze watershed is...
04 October 2017
  Access to reliable and affordable energy is fundamental in achieving economic development, and poverty reduction. It is also a vital input that underpins food security by enabling the various processes that are used to produce, process and transport food from the field to the consumer. However, depending on the type...
10 September 2017
A year had passed after completing secondary school and she had not found a job. Jeanne Aurore Muneza, now a 27 year old couldn not continue to university because her parents were poor. In fact, with that level of education in her rural area, her parents expected her to be...