Most parts of the country are now experiencing a severe drought which has already had a devastating impact on rural livelihoods in the south

The Centre will build Somalia’s national capacity to independently manage desert locusts in the country

Episodes in the programme to focus on the impact of climate change on food security

The online session called for local action to improve the systems that produce and distribute the food in Somalia

The cash for work programme enables vulnerable households to meet their immediate needs while rehabilitating productive infrastructure such as water catchments

Ahead of the global United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 convened in September by United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, the Somali Federal Government in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the European Union (EU), and the French research Centre for Agricultural Development (CIRAD) conducted a stakeholders consultation workshop on the assessment of Food Systems

The agreement enables the SNBS to carry out its mandate to collect, manage and report on environmental, food security and market data in the country

FAO’s work through the Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme Building food system resilience in protracted crises (FNS-REPRO), is a project funded by the Government of the Netherlands that spans across Somaliland to Sudan and South Sudan over a period of two years

The desert locust invasion in Somalia has significantly affected the country’s food security, with successive generations of swarms destroying vital crops and pastures

Efforts to fight a global surge in acute food insecurity are being stymied in several countries by fighting and blockades that cut off life-saving aid to families on the brink of famine, warn the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) in a new report issued today.