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The Food and Agriculture   Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 28 December handed over fishing gears worth over   GMD4.7m to 12 communities and the Fisheries Department at a brief ceremony   held in Banjul. The Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Natural   Resources Pa Ousman Jarju...

The Gambian Government and The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 29 June, 2016 signed a Seventeen million two hundred and fifty two thousand dalasi(US$400,000.00) project designed to address the lack of accurate and reliable livestock data in the country. The FAO funded Technical Cooperation Programme...

Website of the National Farmers Platform of The Gambia (NFPG) was successfully launched today the 21st of September 2015 at the Wellingara Horticultural model center. In attendance were representatives of Forest and Farm Producer Organizations and Associations, FAO country office, ANR sector institutions and the media fraternity.  The launching will be...

  Alhagie Wahab Jabbie, Grand Marabout at Sutukung village, Lower River Region has praised the MDG1c project`s achievement in the community as outstanding. According to him, produce from the garden is remarkably alleviating the suffering of women and the entire community. “Because of the huge benefits being realized from the garden,...

The Crop Production Intensification Component of the EU funded MDG1c project continues to register success in its intervention sites across the country. Women Vegetable Growers in Darsilami, Sandu District, Upper and Lower River Region say the intervention is improving lives and livelihoods in the community. They made the remarks recently...