The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) will help farmers purchase seeds intime for the next planting season in Swaziland under its Initiative on Soaring FoodPrices (ISFP).
Launched in December last year and covering 48 developing countries, the ISFP initiativeaims to boost food production in the short term with seeds, fertiliser, animal feed,farming tools and supplies for smallholder farmers.
In its 5 September regional food price update, FAO reported that prices of basic food staples remained at exceptionally high levels in several low- income food-deficit countries in Africa,Asia and the Americas. FEWS Net’s food security map meanwhile continues to forecast poor food security prospects for several countries including Swaziland.
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