Wed, 26 Apr 2017 11:35:05 +0000 By AARON CHIYANZO THE Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has given Zambia and three other countries US$7 million support for climate change mitigation and adaptation, Minister of Agriculture Dora Siliya has said. Ms Siliya, who is in Italy to attend a FAO meeting, said in an interview with the Daily Nation that she had a fruitful meeting with the FAO director general Jose Graziano da Silva. The minister disclosed that the FAO had given Zambia, Vietnam and Malawi US$7million each support for climate change mitigation and adaptation. “Yesterday, I met with FAO director general alongside the FAO council of ministers meeting. I thanked the FAO for the US$ 7 million support for climate change mitigation and adaptation given to only three countries in Africa,” she said. Ms Siliya said that among the other issues they discussed was the need for food security to include nutrition and for Zambia […]
