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NewsletterFAO Rwanda Newsletter, 1st Quarter 2025 – Issue #1 2025
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No results found.The FAO Rwanda, 1st quarter 2025 Newsletter showcases initiatives driving sustainable food systems, climate resilience, and inclusive growth. Highlights include climate-smart livestock projects reducing methane emissions, MSME capacity-building, and enhanced disaster preparedness with national partners. The Green Cities Initiative in Rubavu, progress in the DeSIRA potato value chain, and regional One Health collaboration under the Pandemic Fund are also featured. Additional stories cover digital skills training for farmers, International Women’s Day celebrations, FAO’s participation in the AFSTA Seed Congress, and the launch of Uruhimbi, a digital publication celebrating Rwanda’s culinary heritage. -
NewsletterFAO Rwanda Newsletter, 4th quarter 2018 - Issue #4
Supporting family farmers to produce more food
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No results found.FAO Rwanda newsletter is aimed to inform its partners about FAO interventions in Rwanda in ending malnutrition and improve the farmers' incomes through agriculture. In 2015, chronic malnutritio or stunting was at 38% according to Rwanda Demographic Health Survey. Over 70% of Rwanda's population relies on agriculture and therefore, the sector presents emmerse opportunities to create employment for rural people. About one in four rural households lives in extreme poverty and agriculture remains the backbone of the economy, accounting for one third of 33% of the total GDP in 2014 (NISR, 2015) and employing about 60 per cent of total employment in a population of 10.5 million people. However, the sector faces a number of challenges including the recent outbreak of Fall Armyworm (FAW) which, by 2018, it had infested maize plantations in all the 30 districts. FAO has distributed eco-friendly pheromone traps and lures which trap male moths to reduce their reproduction. The FAO also gave farmers mobile phone application FAMEWS (Fall Armyworm Monitoring & Early Warning System) which helps to monitor the insect. FAO, through a new project, distributed to farmers’ access to healthy and high yielding banana planting materials to increase banana production for local demand and export. -
NewsletterFAO Rwanda newsletter Volume 3 - Issue#4, 4th quarter 2017
Rebalancing Agriculture to improve gender equality in the sector and promote best agricultural practices.
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No results found.Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) collaborated with lawmakers in Rwanda to discuss the importance and effectiveness of gender mainstreaming as the country works to realize global and regional commitments. This high level policy dialogue, titled “Rwanda agriculture policy and its nexus with gender equality: Malabo Declaration and the SDGs for Climate-Smart Agriculture”, highlighted challenges that are still evident in mainstreaming gender, such as constraints in accessing markets, limited access to tools and transport facilities, and women having less access and control over their household’s agricultural resources. An small-scale irrigation technologies project in rural Rwanda helped farmers in Kirehe, Kayonza and Nyagatare Districts to increase food production as well as being able to grow crops all year round. The Africa Solidarity Trust Fund (ASTF) funded project supported 200 vulnerable households, mainly women-headed, to establish poultry farms for egg production. The project also helped improve nutrition, as families benefitted from additional protein by adding eggs to their diets.
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