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FAO’S SUPPORT TO BUILD CLIMATE RESILIENCE IN SOMALIA

With nearly 7 million people in Somalia in need of life-saving assistance this year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is urging continued global support to assist Somalis suffering the effects of hunger, conflict, displacement, and climate change.

FAO and its UN partners are supporting thousands of households through programmes aimed at mitigating the impacts of key drivers of food insecurity, such as floods, droughts, high food prices, and conflict. These programmes include improving prevention and preparedness for food crises in rural communities, strengthening livestock production, and training farmers on climate-smart agriculture.

Language English

Duration 1m57s

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Video Type Video News Release (VNR)

Date 06/27/2024 3:38 PM

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Shotlist STORY: FAO / FAO’S SUPPORT TO BUILD CLIMATE RESILIENCE IN SOMALIA
TRT: 1:57
SOURCE: FAO
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SOMALI / NATS
DATELINE: 21 JUNE 2024, ROME, ITALY / RECENT

SHOTLIST:

JUNE 2024, BORAMA DISTRICT, SOMALIA

1. Drone shot, agricultural area
2. Drone shot, agricultural land
3. Wide shot, fodder production facility of the FAO Somali Information and Resilience Action (SIRA) programme
4. Wide shot, FAO officers and Alexander Jones, Director of the FAO's Resource Mobilization Division, in the SIRA facility
5. Med shot, FAO officers and beneficiaries in the SIRA facility
6. Med shot, female farmers in the SIRA facility

JUNE 2024, JOWHAR, HIRSHABELLE STATE, SOMALIA

7. Drone shot, agricultural area in Jowhar

JUNE 2024, DOLOW, SOMALIA

8. Wide shot, FAO beneficiary Edeba Ali Hassan working with a colleague
9. Wide shot, Edeba Ali Hassan working with a colleague
10. Med shot, FAO beneficiary Edeba Ali Hassan working
11. SOUNDBITE (SOMALI), Edeba Ali Hassan, female farmer and beneficiary:
"I have 10 children, and I can’t provide for them because there are no jobs except for farming, which is why I joined [the Joint Resilience Action programme]."

JUNE 2024, BORAMA DISTRICT, SOMALIA

12. Drone shot, a plot of the FAO drought-tolerant seeds programme
13. Wide shot, FAO officers in the drought-tolerant seeds project with Amoud University
14. Wide shot, a sorghum plot of the FAO drought-tolerant seeds project
15. Drone shot, plot of the FAO drought-tolerant seeds project with Amoud University

JUNE 2024, JOWHAR, HIRSHABELLE STATE, SOMALIA

16. Drone shot, Jowhar Offstream Storage Programme (JOSP)
17. Drone shot, Jowhar Offstream Storage Programme (JOSP)
18. Drone shot, Jowhar Offstream Storage Programme (JOSP)

21 JUNE 2024, ROME

19. SOUNDBITE (English), Alexander Jones, Director of the FAO's Resource Mobilization Division:
“FAO programmes in Somalia are focused largely on supporting people in food security in an area that is consistently affected by recurring droughts and floods, which are the most recent emergency they [farmers] are dealing with. The JOSP project is helping to rehabilitate a huge area with approximately 1.5 million beneficiaries through water management, through community-based programmes on water, both for floods and for drought areas.”

JUNE 2024, DOLOW, SOMALIA

20. Wide shot, farmer working in a field
21. Med shot, farmer working

Script With nearly 7 million people in Somalia in need of life-saving assistance this year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is urging continued global support to assist Somalis suffering the effects of hunger, conflict, displacement, and climate change.

FAO and its UN partners are supporting thousands of households through programmes aimed at mitigating the impacts of key drivers of food insecurity, such as floods, droughts, high food prices, and conflict. These programmes include improving prevention and preparedness for food crises in rural communities, strengthening livestock production, and training farmers on climate-smart agriculture.

Edeba Ali Hassan, 33, is a female farmer displaced from the conflict-impacted Bakool region. After moving to Dolow, she joined the Joint Resilience Action programme being implemented by FAO in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP).

She received cash transfers, two seasons' worth of agricultural inputs, and was granted access to farmland and solar powered irrigation system.

SOUNDBITE (SOMALI), Edeba Ali Hassan, female farmer and participant in FAO's Kabasa Bantal Demo Farm for farmers' climate agricultural training in Dolow district in Somalia:
"I have 10 children, and I can’t provide for them because there are no jobs except for farming, which is why I joined [the Joint Resilience Action programme]."

Climate extremes represent a significant threat to food security in Somalia.

In 2024, continued above-average rainfall driven by El Niño conditions threatened to cause reduced plantings, crop losses, and infrastructure damages in the Shabelle and Juba River basins, according to the recent United Nations early warning report “Hunger Hotspots – FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity.”

Between 2021 and 2023, Somalia was confronted with a protracted drought that pushed the country to the brink of famine. Today an estimated 1.7 million children aged 6 to 59 months face acute malnutrition.

To help farming communities adapt to extreme climate conditions, FAO is developing a project in Somaliland to produce and distribute drought-tolerant sorghum and cowpea seeds. Funded by the European Union, the project is carried out in collaboration with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Amoud University.

The Somali government, FAO, and UN partners also launched the Jowhar Offstream Storage Programme (JOSP), designed to mitigate climate extremes and boost agricultural production along the Shabelle River in southern Somalia, explained Alexander Jones, Director of the FAO's Resource Mobilization Division, after concluding a field mission to the area.

SOUNDBITE (English), Alexander Jones, Director of the FAO's Resource Mobilization Division:

“FAO programmes in Somalia are focused largely on supporting people in food security in an area that is consistently affected by recurring droughts and floods, which are the most recent emergency they [farmers] are dealing with. The JOSP project is helping to rehabilitate a huge area with approximately 1.5 million beneficiaries through water management, through community-based programmes on water, both for floods and for drought areas.”

This large-scale, transformative programme has received financing from the British Embassy in Mogadishu and the UN Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF), and planned contributions are expected from United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Somalia Joint Fund (SJF).

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