30 October 2017 - 06 November 2017
Climate change is no new phenomenon. For decades changes in temperatures, precipitation, new and emergent pests, and loss of vegetative cover have been noted and documented. It is only after a direct effect on smallholder agricultural and pastoral production...
02 October 2017 - 07 October 2017
En Avril 2016, le Ministre de l’Agriculture de Sao Tome et Principe avait saisi le Bureau Sous-régional de la FAO pour l’Afrique Centrale (SFC) à propos d’une infestation par un insecte qui faisait beaucoup de dégâts sur la culture de...
18 September 2017
Background
As a net food importing country, Saint Kitts and Nevis is relatively food-insecure and vulnerable to extreme climatic events, as well as to global economic shocks caused by increasing food or energy prices. The Government is seeking to create employment...
05 September 2017 - 10 September 2017
A training workshop is scheduled to take place in Abuja, Nigeria, from 5 to 10 September 2017 to strengthen ECOWAS’ Member States technical capacity to manage Spodoptera frugiperda (Fall Armyworm) outbreak in West Africa.
Since the pest detection in Africa, FAO...
07 August 2017 - 25 August 2017
24 July 2017 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development (MoAIWD), through the Pesticide Control Board will conduct a three-week Training of Facilitators Course...