FAO in Somalia

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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...
16 October 2013
Somalia The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have joined forces with Somali authorities to encourage Somalis to eat more fish as a way to fight hunger in the Horn of Africa Despite Somalia’s enormous marine resources, the country’s fishing industry remains largely under-developed and its...
03 September 2013
Nairobi/Washington The number of people in crisis in Somalia is at its lowest since famine was declared in Somalia in 2011, thanks to successive seasons of average to above average rainfall, low food prices and sustained humanitarian response but acute malnutrition continues to pose a threat to hundreds of thousands...
09 July 2013
Hargeisa Three Somali enterprises formed out a UK funded programme have, for the first time, showcased what is seen as new and promising kind of investment opportunities along the livestock value chain. The 3-day event ending today, organized by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization in the Somali city of Hargeisa,...