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Somalia: FAO in fish eating promotion to fight hunger Mogadishu Jimco 11 May 2012 SMC
Somalia: FAO in fish eating promotion to fight hunger The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a communication campaign to raise public awareness about the nutritional benefits of fish across Somalia, a country with the longest coastline in Africa but also one of the world's lowest fish consumption per capita. Despite the enormous marine resource, Somalia's fishing industry is largely under-developed and unexploited, partly due to decades of conflict, piracy on the high sea but largely a diet culture that excludes fish. The country's per capita fish consumption is 2.4 kg/year (FAO 2005), one of the lowest in the world. Recent analysis by FAO's Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit and FEWSNET confirmed that famine conditions, that killed tens of thousands of Somalis in 2011, no longer existed in parts of Southern Somalia, yet nearly a third of the Somali population remains in crisis, unable to fully meet essential food and non-food needs.More
Maxamuud Axmed Xasan
Somaliweyn Media Center (SMC)
Somaliweyn Media Center (SMC)
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