FAO in Uganda

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01 December 2020
FAO offers technical support to the countries to improve the quality and the transparency of forest data through the support in the implementation of National Forest Monitoring (NFM) Systems. “Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest)” is an FAO project to strengthen the institutional and technical...
13 November 2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Representation in Uganda officially kicked off the process of developing its five-year Country Programming Framework for Uganda, with a high-level meeting of stakeholders in the food and agriculture sector. The meeting, held on 13 November 2020 at the Kampala Serena...
06 November 2020
Twenty District Veterinary Officers from 17 districts were selected for the first cohort of the Frontline In-Service Applied Veterinary Epidemiology Training (ISAVET) in Uganda, a programme to develop skills of frontline animal health workforce in field level preparedness, early detection and rapid effective response to transboundary animal diseases (TADs) and...
07 October 2020
Ugandans in nine urban areas were at Crisis levels of food insecurity or worse for months leading to August because of negative impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown. The worst affected of were Gulu, Jinja and Kasese where nearly one in three people struggled to find nutritious food on a regular...
01 October 2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) and the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, have today launched the second round of the Youth Champions Initiative competition which seeks to identify...