FAO in South Sudan

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22 May 2020
Juba, South Sudan - The Food and Agriculture Organization received three Sherp all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) from the World Food Programe Workshop in Juba. The vehicles will serve to reach the populations living in most remote and hard-to-reach areas of South Sudan that are not accessible by road. In 2020, despite ongoing...
13 May 2020
The Russian Federation has contributed to enhancing the fight against Desert Locust in South Sudan with $ 1 million donation to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Honorary Consul of Russia Ahmed Nur, the FAO Representative in South Sudan, Malo Meshack and the Ministry of Agriculture...
05 May 2020
Jacqueline Tuon is 21 years old and already the mother of three children, having given birth to her first at just 14. The family lives in northern Bari Payam, in Central Equatoria State, where in early April FAO distributed seeds and essential farming tools to 500 households as part of...
24 April 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has triggered movement restrictions all over the world. In South Sudan, FAO has had to find new ways to work in order to get much-needed seeds to farmers in time for the coming planting season. Without these seeds, farming families could face a food crisis within the...
20 February 2020
Food security worsened significantly in areas hit by last year’s floods Some 6.5 million people in South Sudan – more than half of the population - could be in acute food insecurity at the height of this hunger season (May-July), three United Nations agencies warned today. The situation is particularly worrying in...