FAO in Uganda

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31 March 2017
      Adaptation Fund Board Endorses agricultural climate resilience project Eastern Africa countries face challenges of achieving food security mainly due to unfavorable weather and climate conditions, including the occurrence of droughts and floods as well as increasingly unreliable rainfall and gradually increasing temperatures. In response, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in collaboration with Food...
24 March 2017
      The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Uganda has reoriented its stakeholders on the new work plan for year two of the USAID funded Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) linked to Joint External Evaluation Tool (JEE) which includes prioritisation of zoonotic diseases which were not part of the earlier work plan.  The...
15 August 2016
   The move is  aimed at boosting food production and improving livelihoods among refugees     Over  42,400 Refugees and host communities (30%) in Kiryandongo, Adjumani and  Rhino refugee settlements in Uganda have received agriculture inputs to boost food production and reduce reliance on food aid. The donation is part of the Emergency Agricultural Livelihoods...
01 August 2016
The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process is an initiative aimed at addressing  adaptation needs for all developing countries  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) partnered the Ugandan Government to  integrate  the agriculture sector   – including crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries and...
21 July 2016
  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the European Union and the Government of Uganda have today jointly launched the third phase of the Sawlog Production Grant Scheme (SPGS III) aimed at consolidating gains of SPGS II while mitigating the effects of climate change through intensive afforestation. By July...