FAO in Sierra Leone

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16 December 2016
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the Ministry of Trade and Industry is training 160 (one hundred and sixty) women farmers in cooperative management and governance in order to improve their production capacity, increase income and social cohesion. The training is a key activity...
04 November 2016
Agriculture Minister calls for the adaptation of climate-smart technologies  Sierra Leone’s Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security, Patrick Monty Jones on 28 October 2016, during the commemoration of World Food Day  encouraged stakeholders to think of innovative approaches and the adaptation of new technologies that enable crops to be resilient to...
01 September 2016
FAO provides cash transfers to Agribusiness Centres for livestock investment.  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security (MAFFS)  is providing funds to twelve Agribusiness Centres (ABCs) for the implementation of livestock activities.   The twelve ABCs, two each, in Koinadugu,...
11 July 2016
Last year, roughly one of every six fish sold around the world was caught illegally. That number is now poised to drop precipitously, thanks to the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), the world’s first international treaty designed specifically to tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Under this new agreement, parties are obliged...
27 June 2016
Stakeholders in the food and nutrition sector met on 22nd – 23rd June to share experiences, lessons learnt and capitalize on the promising practices from the implementation of the Mainstreaming Food and Nutrition Security and the Right to Food (FNS&RtF) into the Smallholder Commercialization Programme (SCP) in Sierra Leone. The two...