FAO in Sierra Leone

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13 March 2017
The story of a Sierra Leonean vegetable farmer    She was just 17 when her parents forced her to become a house wife. A status she was not prepared to attain and was not even yearning to enroll into by then, but tradition decided her fate. Even to date, she detests...
19 December 2016
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with theMinistry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security , Ministry of Health and Sanitation and the Scaling-up Nutrition Secretariat on Tuesday, 11 November 2016 launched the Sierra Leone Food-Based Dietary Guidelines for Healthy Eating at the Miatta Conference Centre in Freetown.  Sierra...
16 December 2016
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership withPREDICT-2 (Metabiota) has trained livestock officers from across the country on sample collection from livestock and domestic animals to be tested for different pathogens, in particular the Ebola virus and other filoviruses. The training was conducted under the FAO component...
16 December 2016
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the Ministry of Trade and Industry is training 160 (one hundred and sixty) women farmers in cooperative management and governance in order to improve their production capacity, increase income and social cohesion. The training is a key activity...
04 November 2016
Agriculture Minister calls for the adaptation of climate-smart technologies  Sierra Leone’s Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security, Patrick Monty Jones on 28 October 2016, during the commemoration of World Food Day  encouraged stakeholders to think of innovative approaches and the adaptation of new technologies that enable crops to be resilient to...