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10 January 2014
NAIROBI Somali's working to rebuild their country's reproductive sectors will for the first time showcase Somalia's potential in a bid to attract foreign investment and spur an economic recovery. Once one of Africa's powerhouses, leading in fruit and livestock exports, Somalia has suffered over two decades of war disease and hunger consequently...
NAIROBI Somali's working to rebuild their country's reproductive sectors will for the first time showcase Somalia's potential in a bid to attract foreign investment and spur an economic recovery. Once one of Africa's powerhouses, leading in fruit and livestock exports, Somalia has suffered over two decades of war disease and hunger consequently...
16 December 2013
Mogadishu Farmers brace for bigger markets in EU funded initiative With Somalia’s cooperatives farming, food marketing and distribution networks disrupted over the last 22 years, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has partnered with the World Food Program (WFP) to reactivate the local food economy dominated by imports. Agricultural communities especially in...
Mogadishu Farmers brace for bigger markets in EU funded initiative With Somalia’s cooperatives farming, food marketing and distribution networks disrupted over the last 22 years, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has partnered with the World Food Program (WFP) to reactivate the local food economy dominated by imports. Agricultural communities especially in...
28 November 2013
Burao - The investment by the United Kingdom in one of the biggest and most modern slaughterhouses in Somalia will significantly contribute towards improving Somalia's ailing meat industry, which has seen little development for the last two decades. Burao is located in the Horn of Africa region where livestock forms...
Burao - The investment by the United Kingdom in one of the biggest and most modern slaughterhouses in Somalia will significantly contribute towards improving Somalia's ailing meat industry, which has seen little development for the last two decades. Burao is located in the Horn of Africa region where livestock forms...
25 November 2013
Hargeisa Today, the European Union, together with its implementing partners ICIPE and FAO, are launching a new milk sector project in Hargeisa that will support Somaliland’s food security and local industry. Somaliland is currently importing the majority of its milk as powdered milk, in order to meet this increasing demand. However, with...
Hargeisa Today, the European Union, together with its implementing partners ICIPE and FAO, are launching a new milk sector project in Hargeisa that will support Somaliland’s food security and local industry. Somaliland is currently importing the majority of its milk as powdered milk, in order to meet this increasing demand. However, with...
12 November 2013
Nairobi Shortly after the devastating cyclone hit parts of northern Somalia, the extent of its impact is beginning to emerge with about 100 people feared dead and tens of thousands of livestock wiped out according to the Puntland authorities. According to data collected by weather experts at the UN’s Food and Agriculture...
Nairobi Shortly after the devastating cyclone hit parts of northern Somalia, the extent of its impact is beginning to emerge with about 100 people feared dead and tens of thousands of livestock wiped out according to the Puntland authorities. According to data collected by weather experts at the UN’s Food and Agriculture...