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FAO in South Sudan
South Sudan is due to become a member state of FAO in 2012.
Head of FAOs South Sudan office: Sue Lautze
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- Saturday 2 March 2013
March 1, 2013 (BOR) - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is seeking additional funds from donors in order to support its work limiting the spread of Haemorrhagic Septicaemia and treating infected cattle. FAO (...)
- Sunday 3 March 2013
March 2, 2013 (JUBA) – At least 4.1 million people in South Sudan are likely to be food insecure this year, a new report released by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) reveals. (...)
- Tuesday 12 March 2013
By Julius N. Uma
March 11, 2013 (JUBA) – Violence in South Sudan is likely to internally displace about 200,000 people, while up to 350,000 refugees, mainly from Sudan are expected into the country this year, the United Nations said (...)
- Tuesday 20 November 2012
By Julius N. Uma
November 19, 2012 (YEI) - The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), in collaboration with the French government and South Sudan’s Agriculture Ministry last week launched a seed project, aimed at (...)
- Friday 3 May 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
May 2, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – A new report released on Thursday revealed that 258,000 people died in Somalia during a severe famine that hit the East African nation between 2010 and 2012. A Somalian child eats gruel (...)
- Friday 16 September 2011
By Julius N. Uma
September 15, 2011 (MOROBO) - The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has embarked on a strategy aimed at reducing farmers’ dependency on imported seeds in South Sudan, as part of the new country’s drive to (...)
- Thursday 9 February 2012
January 8, 2012 (BOR) – South Sudan’s first full year as an independent nation will be characterised by hunger if urgent action is not taken to address the consequences of poor harvests, price hikes, conflict and displacement, a UN (...)
- Monday 10 December 2012
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
Press Release
Government pledges $5m to sustain EU, FAO agriculture recovery project
10 December 2012. JUBA: A recovery project handed to South Sudan by the European Union and (...)
- Saturday 4 December 2010
By Julius N. Uma
December 02, 2010 (JUBA) - The need to enhance and build capacities of local non-governmental organizations and public institutions should be the southern government’s priority, if the food needs of the population are (...)
- Thursday 29 September 2005
Sept 28, 2008 (ROME) — About 12 million people in southern Africa need immediate food assistance following a poor cereal harvest, and the situation in war-town Sudan is particularly alarming, a U.N. food agency said Wednesday.
People (...)
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