FAO in Sierra Leone

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30 January 2018
FAO gives refresher training to 60 Community Animal Health Workers The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security (MAFFS), on Monday, 29 January 2018 trained sixty Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs) to provide support to improve the...
15 December 2017
The Sierra Leone Central Veterinary Laboratory at Teko, in Makeni was inaugurated on Thursday, 14 December 2017 to revamp operations as the country’s main referral place for providing services for animal health. The newly rehabilitated laboratory was inaugurated by His Excellency, President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma in the company of the...
27 September 2017
Stakeholders in the agriculture, forestry, fisheries, land and rural development sectors in Sierra Leone have held the 4th Multi-Stakeholder Platform workshop on the implementation of the Voluntarily Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) . The two-day workshop was...
14 September 2017
The Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security, Marie Marilyn Jalloh has expressed delight and satisfaction over the increasing production and commitment shown by women cooperatives engaged in farming activities. Jalloh was in Kambia and Kenema Districts to assess the activities of women farmers’ cooperatives that have been supported by...
25 August 2017
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is helping the Government of Sierra Leone and other humanitarian partners respond to disastrous landslides and floods in Freetown and its environs.  Residents of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, woke up on Monday, 14 August 2017, to devastating floods and landslides. Freetown...