Category: Food Security
Agri-Business Capital Fund for Rural SMEs Set Up
By Abdi Ali Published May 2, 2020 A United Nations agency says it has set up a blended capital impact fund to help small-scale farmers and micro-, small and medium size rural enterprises in developing countries create jobs and increase incomes. RELATED: Cross-Border Campaign Needed to Combat Locust Upsurge in Eastern Africa International Fund for…
Read MoreFund to Help Prevent Food Crisis in Wake of COVID-19 Launched
By Abdi Ali Published April 25, 2020 A new multi-donor fund to help mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on food production, market access and employment has been launched. The US$240 Million COVID-19 Rural Poor Stimulus Facility by United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) was launched on April 20, 2020 with urgent…
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UN Food Security Agencies Call for Help in the Fight Against Eastern Africa Locust Invasion
By Khalifa Hemed Published February 21, 2020 Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations are appealing for urgent assistance from the international community in the fight of desert locusts that are destroying food crops and pastures across eastern Africa. David Beasley, Executive Director of WFP, says that help…
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Cross-Border Campaign Needed to Combat Locust Upsurge in Eastern Africa
By Abdi Ali Published January 21, 2020 Unprecedented swarms of destructive desert locust in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia could swell exponentially and spill over into more countries in eastern Africa if efforts to combat the pest are not scaled up across the region. Heavy rains that have been experienced since October 2019, are said to…
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Project to Help Ethiopians Adapt to Climate Change Set Up
By Irene Gaitirira Published December 15, 2019 Ethiopians who depend on rain-fed agriculture and pastoralism are set to benefit from a new US$451 million project to increase their resilience to floods, drought and desertification caused by climate change. Ethiopia and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) of the United Nations have signed a US$451 million…
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Film Featuring World-Renowned Poet Pays Tribute to Farming Rural Women
By Khalifa Hemed Published October 16, 2019 A short film aimed at raising awareness of the power of rural women in helping fight global hunger has been launched. This Is How We Rise, the short film launched on the International Day of Rural Women by United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), features world…
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