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30 March 2017
Agriculture officials and experts from five English-speaking member countries of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) e are gathered in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, for a training session in the formulation of agricultural investment projects. The training is organized by the Regional Agency for Agriculture and Food...
Agriculture officials and experts from five English-speaking member countries of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) e are gathered in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, for a training session in the formulation of agricultural investment projects. The training is organized by the Regional Agency for Agriculture and Food...
20 March 2017
The Njala University in Sierra Leone had talks with Bukar Tijani, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, especially in the areas of food security and poverty reduction, requires strong and enhanced partnerships with different sections of the society. The role...
The Njala University in Sierra Leone had talks with Bukar Tijani, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, especially in the areas of food security and poverty reduction, requires strong and enhanced partnerships with different sections of the society. The role...
13 March 2017
The story of a Sierra Leonean vegetable farmer She was just 17 when her parents forced her to become a house wife. A status she was not prepared to attain and was not even yearning to enroll into by then, but tradition decided her fate. Even to date, she detests...
The story of a Sierra Leonean vegetable farmer She was just 17 when her parents forced her to become a house wife. A status she was not prepared to attain and was not even yearning to enroll into by then, but tradition decided her fate. Even to date, she detests...
19 December 2016
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with theMinistry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security , Ministry of Health and Sanitation and the Scaling-up Nutrition Secretariat on Tuesday, 11 November 2016 launched the Sierra Leone Food-Based Dietary Guidelines for Healthy Eating at the Miatta Conference Centre in Freetown. Sierra...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with theMinistry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security , Ministry of Health and Sanitation and the Scaling-up Nutrition Secretariat on Tuesday, 11 November 2016 launched the Sierra Leone Food-Based Dietary Guidelines for Healthy Eating at the Miatta Conference Centre in Freetown. Sierra...
16 December 2016
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership withPREDICT-2 (Metabiota) has trained livestock officers from across the country on sample collection from livestock and domestic animals to be tested for different pathogens, in particular the Ebola virus and other filoviruses. The training was conducted under the FAO component...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership withPREDICT-2 (Metabiota) has trained livestock officers from across the country on sample collection from livestock and domestic animals to be tested for different pathogens, in particular the Ebola virus and other filoviruses. The training was conducted under the FAO component...