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Leaving no one behind: Radio initiative educates farmers; pastoralists and fisherfolk across Somalia
23/12/2020
In September 2020, FAO launched a radio training initiative airing various episodes across eight Somali radio stations.
Responding to food insecurity in Mozambique
23/12/2020
Over half a million people require assistance in the north of the country
ISAVET training to strengthen the capacity of veterinarians in field epidemiology
22/12/2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Disease Control (ECTAD), in collaboration with the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), conducted the first phase of the In-Service Applied Veterinary Epidemiology Training (ISAVET).
Support from FAO enables the Central Veterinary Laboratory in Sierra Leone to confirm rabies in dogs
22/12/2020
Positive rabies samples validated by the World Organisation for Animal Health reference centre for rabies at the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES).
FAO moves to scale up response to Fall Armyworm as pest continues to spread
22/12/2020
Director-General calls for better information sharing and technology use
FAO and Belgium support Southern Africa in the fight against the African migratory locust
18/12/2020
Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe have been facing a serious outbreak of the African migratory locust (AML) (Locusta migratoria migratorioides) since May 2020
Farmers in central Somalia cope with back-to-back threats: first floods and then desert locusts
18/12/2020
“My life depends on farming. My resource is farming, and my family sustains itself with what we farm,” says Ali Mahamud Rubaax, a farmer based in Dharkeynley village, Beletweyne district, central Somalia.
Desert Locust upsurge continues to threaten food security in Horn of Africa and Yemen despite intense efforts
16/12/2020
A new generation of desert locust swarms is threatening agricultural and pastoral livelihoods and the food security of millions of people in the Horn of Africa and Yemen despite intense efforts to control the pest throughout 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said today.
Emergency assistance to indigenous peoples affected by COVID-19 in Cesar and La Guajira departments
16/12/2020
Colombia hosts the highest number of migrants from Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) in the region, with nearly 1.8 million people.
FAO mitigating threat of foot-and-mouth disease in West Africa
15/12/2020
United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency funded regional training of national epidemiology and laboratory officers on foot-and-mouth disease field outbreak investigations and laboratory diagnosis