The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has trained Nigeria farmers on how to produce their own feeds to forestall shortages. Mr David Tsokar, Communication Specialist, FAO, who spoke in an interview in Abuja, said the exercise was tagged Training-of-Trainers (ToT) workshop. Tsokar said the training would address the persistent challenge of ...

The AgriTech Observatory, established by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has made significant strides since its launch in February and is now in full-scale operation. The tool monitors the rapidly evolving landscape of digital agriculture in Europe and Central Asia and identifies innovative solutions to regional challenges. One of the ...

Victims of the El-Nino rains wait for food donations from Kenya Red Cross Society in Garissa County, Kenya, on Dec. 19, 2023. (Photo by John Okoyo/Xinhua) Some 66.7 million people in the Greater Horn of Africa region are highly food insecure, according to a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...

WMO 2024 Calendar Competition – Winner Dipayan Bose WMO and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are strengthening their collaboration to improve the provision and use of climate services in agriculture, increase resilience and climate adaptation. WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo and FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 30 May to ...

Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) cause severe and irreversible harm to the environment and human health. They result in millions of involuntary poisoning cases each year, especially in low- and middle-income countries, with women and children working in agricultural environments the worst affected. To help phase out these highly toxic pesticides, the Food and Agriculture Organization ...

Cameroon and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) signed a framework agreement worth over CFA1.617 billion (about $2,731,076) to support Cameroonian smallholder farmers. The agreement was signed yesterday in Yaoundé by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (Minader), Gabriel Mbairobe, and the FAO’s Subregional Coordinator for Central Africa, Athman Mravili, in the presence of the ...

In a move to advance agricultural entrepreneurship and agribusiness development across Africa, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the African Union (AU) have unveiled two new publications on agribusiness incubators and public-private partnerships. The first publication, Agribusiness Incubation and Acceleration Landscape in Africa is an in-depth analysis and mapping of over 430 ...

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), QU Dongyu, today signed an agreement to provide FAO’s support to the Government of Cameroon in building the capacity of small-scale farmers in the country’s Eastern Region. The Cameroon Emergency Food Crisis Response Project which is receiving $2.92 million from the World Bank and for which ...

The conference, co-organized by Morocco and the FAO, aims to develop practical solutions for food security and rural development across Africa. FAO Director-General Dongyu Qu commended Morocco’s pioneering role in agri-food system transformation. He highlighted the country’s advancements in agricultural modernization and diversification, achieved through investments in modern irrigation systems, greenhouse cultivation, and aquaculture technologies. ...

Hunger levels in Africa have increased in the past two years, due to lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing conflicts, the climate crisis and economic shocks, but the continent’s possibilities are vast and optimism about the opportunities that lie ahead is in order, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the ...