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- 02/03/2021 - À Tombouctou, l’année 2020 a été marquée par l’aggravation de la crise sécuritaire et alimentaire, par les impacts de la maladie à coronavirus 2019 (covid-19) et par l’abondance de l’eau ...read more
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- 25/08/2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted a series of training sessions aimed at strengthening the capacity of technical staff from the Department of Agriculture on ...read more
- 25/08/2020 - Santa Angwech David, 23 years old, lives in Magwi, near the South Sudanese border with Kenya. She’s the mother of two girls and a boy and dreams that her children ...read more
- 24/08/2020 - Under COVID-19 restrictions, FAO’s Emergency Management Centre for Animal Health provided virtual support to Myanmar to develop its LSD preparedness
In December 2019, after monitoring the development of a lumpy skin ...read more
- 12/08/2020 - A newly launched FAO project is aimed at strengthening partnerships to bring conservation agriculture to farmers across Southern Africa
Since Grace – a farmer and a mother from Zambia – left ...read more
- 12/08/2020 - A training-of-trainers programme was launched today for 13 selected facilitators coming from Turkey’s four provinces. The programm is part of the Farmer Field Schools component of an FAO project, funded ...read more
- 12/08/2020 - In West Africa, countries are sharing pesticides and other supplies, rather than overstocking
With desert locusts ravaging large swathes of East Africa in recent months, concerns have been rising that swarms ...read more
- 11/08/2020 - The implications of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among vulnerable farming communities in central and northern Rakhine State, Myanmar are distressing enough without adding the impacts of the protracted conflict, ...read more
- 07/08/2020 - In Sub-Saharan Africa, around 80 percent of seeds used by smallholder farmers come from seed systems managed by farmers. Local seeds have adapted over centuries to local growing conditions and ...read more
- 05/08/2020 - Field activities have kicked-off with precautionary measures against COVID-19
Another round of vocational trainings are about to start in Bursa, İzmir, and Şanlıurfa provinces to support selected Syrian refugees under temporary ...read more
- 05/08/2020 - The impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis on food systems are vast and varied, and as of yet hard to predict. But nowhere are they felt harder than ...read more