Ethiopia’s pastoral lowlands are bisected by a number of major river systems like the Awash River in Afar, which runs throughout the arid region. Awash and systems like the Wabe Shabelle which begins in Oromia and the Omo in Southern...

Nationwide floods have levelled another blow to the recovery process for drought-affected pastoralists inEthiopia. Well over 55 000 hectares of land – much of it pasture– has been flooded since late April. So far, thousands of livestock have been lost to the...

With funding from the European Union (EU), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is piloting an alternative model for pastoralist livelihood and education in South Sudan’s Lakes State. Under the “Zonal Effort for Agricultural Transformation – Bahr el-Ghazal...

Actions to eliminate peste des petits ruminants (PPR) have been rolled out in the major regions 20 June 2016, Ethiopia - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is implementing a progressive control program against Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in...

زادت أنشطة المنظمة في مجال تخفيف القطعان في الاستقرار المالي وفي سبل المعيشة لدى المجتمعات الرعوية.
في المنطقة الصومالية، جنوب شرقي إثيوبيا، تسبّب الجفاف المستمر - أشد جفاف وقع في نصف قرن بسبب آثار ظاهرة النينيو – في النقص الحاد في الغذاء والماء، مما أدّى إلى هجرات غير طبيعية ونفوق الماشية على نطاق واسع. يعتمد معظم...