.Food and Agriculture Organization is conducting a seeds fair in Magwi County under the Resilient Agricultural #Livelihoods Project.

The beneficiaries received assorted #Seeds for the main farming season through cash vouchers provided by FAO 💵

The initiative promotes locally produced quality seeds 🌽🫘

The Director for DLCO-EA, Mwesigwa Moses Mwesigwa Moses Rwaheru, met with the Food and Agriculture Organization Representative to South Sudan 🇸🇸, Meshack Oguna Malo today to discuss preparedness measures for controlling #DesertLocust 🦗

They also discussed collaboration between the two agencies 🤝

At the PSEA Deep Dive Study review & #SEA Country wide Assessment workshop, DSRSG/RC/HC Kiki Gbeho reminded that SEA is a serious human rights violation, it is a betrayal of trust that harms beneficiaries. She called on all stakeholders to recommit and double efforts to end SEA.

Thanks to Sweden in South Sudan, Food and Agriculture Organization is training women’s groups in Village Savings & Loan Associations, #Business skills & financial management in Wau.

“I will use part of the money to pay for my children's school fees & invest in #Vegetable production,' says Veronica 💬

👋 Meet Joseph, a determined farmer from Lerwa, whose life took a transformative turn, thanks to the interventions of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 🇳🇱's Food & #Nutrition Security #Resilience Programme.

'I became a seed multiplier because it makes financial sense.' 💡
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With the support of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 🇳🇱-funded Food and Nutrition Security #Resilience Programme (FNS-REPRO), Josephine has been trained in new knowledge and techniques & now produces foundation seeds (a higher class of seeds).

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Through the Resilient #Agricultural #Livelihoods project, Food and Agriculture Organization trained beneficiaries at Yargot in Aweil on good agricultural practices & they are now reaping the rewards of their hard work.

Supporting #Resilience and #Sustainability in agriculture for thriving livelihoods!

FAO Rep, today met Minister of Agriculture & Food Security, Josephine Lagu & that of Gender Child & Social Welfare, Aya Benjamin Warile.

They agreed to foster partnerships that enhance greater participation of women in agriculture & food systems transformation.

#FoodSystems

With support from the African Development Bank Group, Lokuru, a pastoralist, became a Community Animal #Health Worker through the training he received from Food and Agriculture Organization to save his community's livestock from diseases.

#Livestock 🐐🐄 not only provide food but also serve as a source of income.

To prepare for potential #Livestock disease incidents as the rainy season approaches, Food and Agriculture Organization distributed preparatory kits containing assorted veterinary drugs to Community Animal #Health Workers in Maban County to help them treat their livestock 🐄 🐐

.Food and Agriculture Organization 🇸🇸 held a validation workshop in Juba on SDG5a2, legal assessment report on land rights for women, to promote #GenderEquality & women's empowerment.

Secure land rights unlock women’s agricultural potential & enable access to resources to build resilience.

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With the help of the Africa Development Bank African Development Bank Group, through the Build #Resilience for Food & #Nutrition Security in the Horn of Africa (BREFONS), Food and Agriculture Organization is assisting pastoralist communities in #SouthSudan 🇸🇸 to maintain their #Livestock ’s 🐐🐑 health through vaccinations.

Today is World Press Freedom day,we pay tribute to all media & communications workers in the Peace-Humanitarian & Development space not forgetting our own FAO in South Sudan comms team; Chaka, Mogga, Bullen, Mary who publicize our work. #PressForThePlanet

.Food and Agriculture Organization’s #Livestock team travelled to hard-to-reach areas to help beneficiaries in Lotimor & Kauta in Kapoeta East.

They trained Community Animal #Health Workers & conducted vaccinations & treatment.
Protecting the communities' 🐄🐐 safeguards key resources.

🙏 to African Development Bank Group.

.Food and Agriculture Organization’s #Livestock team travelled to hard-to-reach areas to help beneficiaries in Lotimor & Kauta in Kapoeta East.

They trained Community Animal #Health Workers & conducted vaccinations & treatment.

Protecting the communities' 🐄🐐 safeguards key resources.

🙏 to African Development Bank Group.

.Food and Agriculture Organization & World Bank visited a cattle camp at MAFAO today as part of the livestock vaccination campaign.

🙏 to the World Bank, FAO supports pastoralist communities to ensure their 🐄🐐 are healthy while empowering them to value the importance of #Livestock commercialization.

.Food and Agriculture Organization's Emergency Locust Response Program helped Agnes plan her future after receiving teak tree seedlings.

'These are my teak seedlings 🌱 I will harvest & sell them to support my children's education and build a house 🛖'

FAO continues to support beneficiaries like Agnes.

After Food and Agriculture Organization handed over the teak nursery to the 🇸🇸 Central State Min. of #Agriculture at Rombur Boma, 9 000 seedlings 🌱 were distributed under the Emergency Locust Response Program.

This will support locals to generate income, restock the forest, and combat #ClimateChange .

.Food and Agriculture Organization conducted a five-day refresher training for Community-Based Animal Health Workers in the Abyei region.

FAO partnered with IOM South Sudan to train CAHWs to strengthen the network for improving the effectiveness of 🐄 health services delivery to rural communities.

🙏 KOICA.

The Min. of Livestock & Fisheries, Onyoti Adigo, briefed the media in Juba on South Sudan Government’s participation in the Food and Agriculture Organization Africa Regional Conference in Morocco recently.

The conference focused on Resilient agri-food systems and inclusive rural transformation.

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