Food Security Cluster

MOGADISHU — Galmudug state Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the federal ministry of Agriculture has launched a plan to combat locusts in the area. The initiative also aims to fight against the locusts which landed on crops and destroyed animal pasture in generally. Various farmers and pastoralists have called …

ROME (SoOHA) – Somalia faces the worst Desert Locust outbreak in over 25 years, according to an emergency update issued today by the country office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Somalia and FAO’s Desert Locust Information Service in Rome. Desert Locust breeding is ongoing in Galmudug (Mudug), Puntland and …

ADADO (SoOHA) – Somali women are making inroads into the traditionally male domain of livestock marketing in the central Somalia town of Adado. Sirad Ibrahim Abdulle was one of the first local women to venture into the business with an initial investment of $1,000 four years ago. Sirad told Radio …

GAROWE (SoOHA) – 12 fishing vessels with inboard diesel engines were handed over by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Puntland State turned them over to active fishing co-operatives working on the Puntland coast. “The vessels are another contribution …

Abdullahi Nur Osman, the president of the Hormuud Telecom Foundation, recently visited Beledweyne and other flood-affected southern Somali towns to see how local relief efforts were going.  Local businesses, including Hormuud, and local communities have raised huge amounts of cash and gathered food commodities for the flood victims.  However, there …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – A combined $18.7 million has been released from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and the Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) to scale up life-saving assistance to just over half a million people affected by floods in Somalia. “These funds come at a critical time, enabling humanitarian …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Somalia and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) today launched a new US$10 million climate adaptation project to help rural communities secure access to diminishing water supplies. More than 360,000 farmers and pastoralists are set to benefit from sustainable water management, expanded drought, and flood early-warning systems and …

LASANOD (SoOHA) – Pastoralists in Lasanod in the northern Somali Sool region have been forced to migrate from their homes following mudslides in the valleys where they have been grazing their livestock. Torrential rains and flash floods in recent weeks have left deep gullies and sinkholes across the grazing valleys, …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Up to 6.3 million Somalis will be facing acute food shortage by December, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned calling for scaled-up donor support to avert suffering. In a situation report for October, the UN agency said climatic shocks coupled with widespread poverty and vulnerability …

GAROWE (SoOHA) – The Government of the semi-autonomous Puntland is set to send more security forces on its waters to avert illegal fishing. Puntland’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Farah Aisha Beeldaaje, said that the rate at which the waters were being encroached on by foreign vessels was alarming. …