FAO Rwanda Newsletter, 4th quarter 2018 - Issue #4
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FAO Rwanda newsletter is aimed to inform its partners about FAO interventions in Rwanda in ending malnutrition and improve the farmers' incomes through agriculture.
In 2015, chronic malnutritio or stunting was at 38% according to Rwanda Demographic Health Survey. Over 70% of Rwanda's population relies on agriculture and therefore, the sector presents emmerse opportunities to create employment for rural people. About one in four rural households lives in extreme poverty and agriculture remains the backbone of the economy, accounting for one third of 33% of the total GDP in 2014 (NISR, 2015) and employing about 60 per cent of total employment in a population of 10.5 million people.
However, the sector faces a number of challenges including the recent outbreak of Fall Armyworm (FAW) which, by 2018, it had infested maize plantations in all the 30 districts. FAO has distributed eco-friendly pheromone traps and lures which trap male moths to reduce their reproduction. The FAO also gave farmers mobile phone application FAMEWS (Fall Armyworm Monitoring & Early Warning System) which helps to monitor the insect.
FAO, through a new project, distributed to farmers’ access to healthy and high yielding banana planting materials to increase banana production for local demand and export.