FAO in Uganda

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05 September 2018
Launches report on the food security, resilience and well-being analysis of refugees and host communities in Northern Uganda and a new Roadmap to support refugee and host communities to be resilient and food secure    Moyo – Uganda currently hosts approximately 1.4 million refugees from South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo...
31 August 2018
 Ticks, tick acaricide resistance and tick-borne diseases of livestock in Uganda     31 August 2018, Mbarara - Following a study commissioned by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the prevalence of ticks, tick-borne diseases and tick resistance to acaricides in Uganda, experts have now recommended measures to be...
14 August 2018
  Mukono – In a bid to respond to the Fall Armyworm (FAW) outbreaks and minimize the pest’s destruction of crops, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations working with the Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), have rolled out the use of...
21 June 2018
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Uganda, yesterday, 20 June 2018, joined the Government of Uganda, other UN agencies and partners to commemorate World Refugee Day at Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Isingiro district. Nakivale, one of the oldest refugee settlements in Uganda, opened in 1958 and...
15 June 2018
  FAO, in coordination with key partners, officially launched the Eastern Africa Field Schools Support Hub in Entebbe, Uganda on 30 May. The launch was attended by key field schools (FS) delegates which included FAO representatives from Ethiopia, Kenya and headquarters, permanent secretaries, directors of extension, international agencies, institutions, academia, farmers and...