FAO in Somalia

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05 June 2024
  Stakeholders hold a learning workshop for a concluded joint Resilience Programme supported with funding from Sweden.   Mogadishu, Somalia - Sustainable food systems must be the focus of government actions to achieve a better life for all in Somalia – that was the key message at a Somali Government, Food and Agriculture Organization...
03 May 2024
Mogadishu, Somalia–In celebration of World Press Freedom Day, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Somalia puts a spotlight on its digital initiatives, including radio, and the role of information in tackling the frequent climate related shocks that affect Somalia.  Since 2020, FAO Somalia has been engaged in...
24 April 2024
  Looking to the horizon: USAID and FAO’s work with fishing cooperatives in Kismayo The climate crisis in Somalia continues to impact impoverished communities already vulnerable to recurrent droughts and floods often resulting in crop destruction, loss of livestock and chronic and acute food insecurity. Climate crises threaten Somalia’s socio-economic progress by...
20 March 2024
  Mogadishu Somalia – March 5 & 9, 2024 -  The Somalia Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation  in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), , officially launched the Hand-in-Hand initiative in Mogadishu. The official multi-stakeholder inception workshop was held on 5 March 2024, followed by a...
14 March 2024
Amid raging water levels that threatened to submerge his home, and sweep away his family and belongings, Abdullahi Ahmed Wasuge, from Beledweyne, was fast running out of options. He knew that although his area faces recurrent floods, this one was like no other! In most cases, the barrage of floods...