FAO in Somalia

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24 April 2024
  Looking to the horizon: USAID and FAO’s work with fishing cooperatives in Kismayo The climate crisis in Somalia continues to impact impoverished communities already vulnerable to recurrent droughts and floods often resulting in crop destruction, loss of livestock and chronic and acute food insecurity. Climate crises threaten Somalia’s socio-economic progress by...
20 March 2024
  Mogadishu Somalia – March 5 & 9, 2024 -  The Somalia Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation  in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), , officially launched the Hand-in-Hand initiative in Mogadishu. The official multi-stakeholder inception workshop was held on 5 March 2024, followed by a...
14 March 2024
Amid raging water levels that threatened to submerge his home, and sweep away his family and belongings, Abdullahi Ahmed Wasuge, from Beledweyne, was fast running out of options. He knew that although his area faces recurrent floods, this one was like no other! In most cases, the barrage of floods...
07 February 2024
Mogadishu - On Monday, the Minister of Finance of the Federal Government of Somalia signed the third addendum of the contract between the Ministry of Finance and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This contract addendum is for another three sub-projects under the Somalia Crisis Recovery...
15 January 2024
Somalia continues to face more frequent climate related crises like droughts and floods linked to climate change, leaving a large part of its population vulnerable. Communities struggle to grow food sustainably, relying on limited livelihoods.  Predictably, these livelihoods are often vulnerable to these disasters.  This leads to severe food shortages...
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