FAO in Somalia

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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...
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...
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...
10 November 2013
During the last 24‐hours a tropical storm named 03A has been developing in the northern Indian Ocean and hashit some coastal areas and inland in Puntland. For the last three hours the storm has been moving away frominland areas towards the Gulf of Aden and coastal areas of Bari and...
31 October 2013
Nairobi –In a bid to continue guiding decision-making using life-saving food security information on Somalia, theEuropean Commission (EC) has boosted the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) with € 4-million funding. Sweden has also recently contributed approximately US$ 2million to FAO for the same purpose. Since 1994, FAO’s Food Security...