The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $25,000,000 Project Grant under the Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The grant, awarded on December 1, 2024, supports FAO's efforts to address food security challenges in Somalia. FAO will use the funding to provide a range of goods and services, including emergency humanitarian assistance, food security coordination and monitoring, agricultural livelihood support, disease surveillance and control, supply chain analysis, training on nutrition and climate-smart practices, and development of data systems for analyzing threats to agricultural livelihoods. FAO often partners with implementing organizations and leverages technical expertise from academic institutions to execute these large-scale programs, which aim to strengthen resilience in food crisis regions, mitigate biological threats, boost agricultural productivity and market access, protect livestock health, control pests and invasive species, and assess impacts of natural disasters on food systems.
Generated 1/28/25, 8:08 AM