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05 July 2013
Nairobi Livestockexperts meeting in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, said more has to be done to prevent outbreaks of one of the worst livestock diseases two years after the world was declared rinderpest free. The three-day event dubbed ‘The Somali Animal Health Seminar and Rinderpest Eradication Commemoration’ brought together livestock sector stakeholders...
Nairobi Livestockexperts meeting in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, said more has to be done to prevent outbreaks of one of the worst livestock diseases two years after the world was declared rinderpest free. The three-day event dubbed ‘The Somali Animal Health Seminar and Rinderpest Eradication Commemoration’ brought together livestock sector stakeholders...
01 July 2013
Initiative also sees first Meat Act passed The Food and Agriculture Organization and Somali authorities have launched ‘Clean Meat’ campaign, funded by the European Union to raise awareness of meat safety in a country where livestock is the economic mainstay. Each year thousands of people become ill while some die from a...
Initiative also sees first Meat Act passed The Food and Agriculture Organization and Somali authorities have launched ‘Clean Meat’ campaign, funded by the European Union to raise awareness of meat safety in a country where livestock is the economic mainstay. Each year thousands of people become ill while some die from a...
15 June 2013
Nairobi/Rome: -The Food and Agriculture Organization office in Somalia has been nominated as this year’s winner of the global B.R. Sen Award for developing innovative emergency response, while facing one of the world’s worst food security challenges in the Horn of Africa nation. The award, in memory of former FAO Director-General,...
Nairobi/Rome: -The Food and Agriculture Organization office in Somalia has been nominated as this year’s winner of the global B.R. Sen Award for developing innovative emergency response, while facing one of the world’s worst food security challenges in the Horn of Africa nation. The award, in memory of former FAO Director-General,...
03 June 2013
Half of the deaths were children under 5 A new study estimates that famine and severe food insecurity in Somalia claimed the lives of about 258,000 people between October 2010 and April 2012, including 133,000 children under 5. Jointly funded and commissioned by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO)...
Half of the deaths were children under 5 A new study estimates that famine and severe food insecurity in Somalia claimed the lives of about 258,000 people between October 2010 and April 2012, including 133,000 children under 5. Jointly funded and commissioned by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO)...
29 April 2013
Garowe/Hargeisa A hydrogeological study covering north and northwestern Somalia indicates that unguided drilling of boreholes puts the country’s groundwater in jeopardy.The report by Somalia Water and Land Information Unit (SWALIM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization follows a survey of 1,270 sites in Somaliland and Puntland, where more than half of the...
Garowe/Hargeisa A hydrogeological study covering north and northwestern Somalia indicates that unguided drilling of boreholes puts the country’s groundwater in jeopardy.The report by Somalia Water and Land Information Unit (SWALIM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization follows a survey of 1,270 sites in Somaliland and Puntland, where more than half of the...