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ProjectStrengthening Institutional and Human Capacities to Design, Implement and Generate Evidence for Nutrition Sensitive Programming Including Policy and Investments in Livestock Programming In Kenya - TCP/KEN/3802 2024
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No results found.The Government of Kenya is committed to ensuring food and nutrition security and has put policies and frameworks in place to support this commitment. Key among these are the latest Kenya National Food and Nutrition Security Policy (2017-2022), which has a strong emphasis on the food systems approach to address malnutrition. Despite this dedication, the government has identified gaps in the capacity of national staff to effectively design and implement nutrition-sensitive policies. In addition, the impact of their programmes was not well-known, as they lacked evidence on how livestock programming addressed seasonal spikes of malnutrition in children under five years of age. Policy and programme investments and implementation depend on evidence-based planning and results, highlighting another need to be addressed. Moreover, the country lacked a national information database on the food consumption of vulnerable populations, requiring additional research. To address these issues, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Development (MoALD) approached FAO for assistance. -
ProjectSupport to Smallholder Producers, in particular Livestock Farms - TCP/MOL/3803 2024
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No results found.The agriculture sector in the Republic of Moldova is characterized by a dualistic structure, comprising a small number of large-scale enterprises and a substantial presence of small-scale family farms. The latter group faces numerous challenges hindering development, including limited financial opportunities, fragmented agricultural land, a diminished ability to manage market and weather risks, and constrained access to production resources. This leads to the adoption of short-term survival strategies that compromise their long-term resilience. Nonetheless, these smallholder family farms play a crucial role in the agricultural landscape of the Republic of Moldova, contributing to over 62 percent of the country's total agricultural produce in 2016. The United Nations declared the period 2019-2028 as the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF), underlining the pivotal role of family farms, pastoralists, and smallholders in achieving food security, improved nutrition, livelihoods, efficient natural resource management, and environmental protection, as well as promoting inclusive and sustainable development. The Republic of Moldova was one of the nations that endorsed the declaration. The Global Action Plan (GAP) for the Decade of Family Farming underscores the significance of creating a supportive policy framework to bolster family farming. By the year 2024, the GAP aims to achieve the development of 100 National Action Plans (NAPs) for family farming through collaborative efforts between governments and family farmers' organizations. -
ProjectPiloting the Demonstration of the National Livestock Development Transformation Plan in Selected States - TCP/NIR/3701 2022
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No results found.The livestock industry in Nigeria suffers from slow growth due to a low productivity of the herds of the country This is caused by insufficient and poor quality feeds, repeated droughts, upsurges of diseases (such as bovine pleuropneumonia, peste des petits ruminants, foot and mouth disease, avian influenza and African swine fever), low livestock genetic resources, the lack of technical knowledge among producers and extension agents, the absence of appropriate infrastructures, a deficit in institutional capacities, inconsistent policies and the lack of investment in the industry In addition, Nigeria faces a sharp diminution of its available arable and grazing lands due to urbanization and climate change, resulting in reduced traditional grazing lands for transhumance and thus causing land conflicts The nomadic pastoralists, who possess the largest proportion of ruminant animal population, cannot meet the fast increasing animal protein needs of the population of the country Consequently, Nigeria depends largely on importation of animal products to meet its domestic demand, currently growing at a yearly average of around 3 percent To address this issue, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development ( requested FAO to provide technical assistance for the implementation of its national livestock plan in selected states and carry out interventions that contribute to improving the provision of goods and services to the livestock sector and to eradicating rural poverty.
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