Special programmes in Gambia
- Improving food security
- Increasing food production
- Improving stability of supplies
- Generating rural employment
The main objective of the SPFS is to help Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) improve national and household food security in an economically and environmentally sustainable way. It advocates a participatory approach through demonstrating better ways of increasing production and identifying and resolving the range of constraints which are technical and institutional.
It draws on Agenda 21, which was unanimously adopted at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de Janeiro. This states that the major thrust of food security "is to bring about a significant increase in agricultural production in a sustainable way and to achieve a substantial improvement in people's entitlement to adequate food and culturally appropriate food supplies."
The SPFS was introduced to the Gambia in 1997, with projects in horticulture, fisheries, livestock production and water management. South-South cooperation is an integral part of the SPFS mandate and technical experts from Bangladesh and Indonesia have worked alongside Gambian counterparts to support development in rice production, aquaculture, water control and management and horticulture and livestock production.
The SPFS is the FAO flagship programme to boost food production in order to decrease rates of hunger and malnutrition in an economically and environmentally sustainable way. It advocates a participatory approach through demonstrating better ways of increasing production and identifying and resolving the range of constraints which are technical and institutional.
Office Address:
FAO Representation in Gambia
FAO Building
10th East Street
'M' Section Fajara
MailingAddress:
Private Mail Bag N. 10, Banjul
Telephone: +220-4498034
Fax: +220-4498036
E-mail: FAO-GM@fao.org
Office Languages: English Working hours: Monday - Thursday 08:15-16:30; Friday 08:15-12:45
Website: http://www.fao.org/
Staff
Mr Babagana Ahmadu, a national of Nigeria, is a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He holds an M.Sc. in Tropical Animal Production and Health from the University of Edinburgh, UK and a Ph.D. in Veterinary Medicine (Livestock Development) from the University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia. He began his career in 1988 as Livestock Development Officer in the Livestock Credit Unit of the Nigerian Agricultural Cooperative and Rural Development Bank, Kaduna, Nigeria. In 1989, he became Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria. From 1993 to 1995, he worked as Lecturer at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Zambia. In 1995, he returned to the University of Maiduguri as a Research Fellow/Lecturer in Animal Production and Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. From 1997 to 2000, he was Senior Research Fellow/Lecturer at the Department of Disease Control, Samora Michel School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia. From 2000 to 2004, he served as Senior Veterinary Officer, Department of Animal Health and Production, Ministry of Agriculture, Botswana. In 2004, he was appointed Director, Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Mr Ahmadu succeeds Mr D. Bowen as FAO Representative in the Gambia.
NJIE, MS MARIATOU ASSISTANT FAOR (PROGRAMME)
DRAMMEH, MS FATOU MARENAHASSISTANT FAOR (ADMINISTRATION)
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