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10 October 2016
Ethiopia to observe World Food Day 2016 in Arbaminch. World Food Day 2016 will be celebrated in SNNP Regional State’s Arbaminch town on 15 and 16 October 2016 with the theme of “Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too”. During a press conference to announce the celebration of the event, on behalf...
07 October 2016
FAO support reinforces food security response to one of the worst El Niño-induced droughts on record
28 September 2016
The Ethiopian Government’s commitment to improving the nutrition needs of the country is reflected in its National Nutrition Strategy and Program developed since 2008. In the revised National Nutrition Program, nutrition-sensitive agriculture is prioritized as one of its objectives recognizing the role of the agriculture sector to improve nutrition.  It...
15 September 2016
Climate-related phenomena like El Niño and La Niña, have, in the last several decades, increased both in frequency and ferocity, hitting global agriculture with a blunt and brutal force. Typically, once every ten years, El Niño events now occur in regions like East Africa   
01 September 2016
The Government of Ethiopia is committed to scaling up the system nationwide A web-based monitoring system, a collaborative partnership project between the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the Government of Ethiopia to strengthen the planning, monitoring and evaluation programme of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural...