Department Agribusiness and Cooperative Report Annually 2024
The Department of Agribusiness Department of Agribusiness and Cooperatives Development’s Annual Report highlights a year of transformative progress and dedicated efforts to drive Somalia’s agricultural sector towards resilience, inclusivity, and innovation. This report captures the department’s achievements, reforms, and strategic activities that align with the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation’s (MoAI) broader mandate and national […]
NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY UPDATES
GU’ SEASON CEREAL PRODUCTION IN SOMALIA CURRENT ACUTE FOOD INSECURITY The 2024 Gu season crop production in southern Somalia is estimated 64,400 metric tons, including 14,100 metric tons of off-season in late September/October 2024, 45 percent lower compared to the long-term average for 2019-2023. This level of poor crop production is attributed to a combination […]
MOAI Report Journal December – 2024
The Advantages of Agri-Processing: Transforming Agriculture for a Prosperous Future in Somalia Agri-processing, the transformation of raw agricultural products into valuable finished goods, plays a pivotal role in Somalia’s agricultural sector. This dynamic process not only enhances food security but also fuels economic growth, fosters rural development, and promotes environmental sustainability. Let’s explore the myriad […]
Previous Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation
Gallery 2022 to 2023
Project name: JOWHAROFF-STREAMSTORAGE PROGRAMME (JOSP)
Programme Description This report presents the key findings from the baseline study conducted in Jowhar and Balcaddistricts as part of the Jowhar Off-stream Storage Program (JOSP). The program is currentlysupported by four projects namely RESTORE, TRANSFORM, MAAREYANTA, and Youth-Act PBF. Thestudy aimed to produce pre-project or baseline resilience of agroecosystems and identify areas forimprovement to […]
Project name: Restoring the riverine eco-systems for climate adaptation
Programme Description Somalia has considerable productive resources which offer huge potential for delivering rapid economic growth of critical importance to people’s livelihoods. These resources include 8.9 million hectares of arable land (with 25 percent of crop production grown through irrigation systems), more than50 million livestock and about 1.8 million tons of fish annually for export1. […]
Project name: Building Resilient Communities in Somalia (BRCiS)
Programme Description The ChallengesThe Global Hunger Index 2021 (GHI) ranked Somalia the lowest out of 116 countries surveyed in termsof food security, with a GHI score of 50.8 putting Somalia as the only country in the extremely alarmingcategory. This situation is deteriorating further as Somalia and the Horn of Africa continues toexperience the worst drought […]
Project name: Climate-resilient livelihoods to Boost food production and Nutrition outcomes (CLIMB)
Programme Description The agriculture sector has played a critical role in the Somali economy, but remains vulnerable to external shocks, which are likely to intensify due to negative impacts of climate change. The country’s economy is mainly based on traditional, primary productive sectors. Livestock and agriculture remain the main sources of economic activity and account […]
Project name: Enhanced climate resilient livelihoods and food security in southern Somalia
Programme Description Somalia finds itself increasingly on the frontline of climate change. More than twenty years of datafrom FAO Somalia Water and Land Information Analysis Unit (SWALIM) clearly shows anemerging pattern of increasing climate volatility with the country experiencing either drought orflood, or both, in 19 of the last 20 years; with the last 10 […]
Project name: Climate adaptation for resilient livelihoods (CadRe)
Programme Description Somalia remains the second most fragile country in the world according to the Fragile States Index4with the country recurrently affected by devastating natural disasters such as droughts, floods andhuman-induced shocks (conflict and political instability). Rural livelihoods in Somalia in particular areincreasingly vulnerable to effects of climate change and conflict with consistently high populations […]
