News videos
28 August 2017
28 August 2017
Recent videos produced by the FAO Regional Office for Africa on two meetings held in Accra, July and August 2017:
World Experiences and Best Practices for Fall Armyworm Management in Africa -
South-South Cooperation
This video features FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa, Bukar Tijani and also captures the view...
FAO Special Ambassador for Nutrition, His Majesty King Letsie III of Lesotho visits Ethiopia, 21-24 August 2017
21 August 2017 - 24 August 2017
21 August 2017 - 24 August 2017
21 August 2017, Addis Ababa - His Majesty King Letsie III of Lesotho, Special Ambassador for Nutrition of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), will be visiting Ethiopia from 21 to 24 August 2017 to highlight the link between nutrition and agriculture.
Read here.
Worldwide experiences and best practices for FAW management in Africa
18 July 2017 - 20 July 2017
18 July 2017 - 20 July 2017
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO) organizes a South-South Cooperation Fall Amyworm (FAW) Expert Technical Meeting on the theme Worldwide Experiences and Best Practices for FAW Management in Africa. The meeting will be held in Accra, Ghana, from 18th to 20th July, 2017.
Fall Armyworm (FAW) has...
Rwanda will be hosting the Seventh Session of the Governing Body , 30 October-3 November 2017
07 July 2017
07 July 2017
3 July 2017, Rome – Speaking during the 40th Session of the FAO Conference in Rome, Rwandan Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, H.E. Geraldine Mukeshimana announced that Rwanda will be hosting the Seventh Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in...
Regional Policy Dialogue Process for the development of ECOWAS Fisheries & Aquaculture regional policy within the framework of regional agricultural policy (ECOWAP)
04 July 2017 - 06 July 2017
04 July 2017 - 06 July 2017
Media advisory
4-6 July 2017 in Abuja, Nigeria
In West Africa, the fisheries and aquaculture sector is still facing challenges that hamper its harmonious development and do not allow the sector to contribute sustainably to food and nutrition security and chronical poverty reduction within the populations of West Africa.
These difficulties include...