FAO Country REP. Rallies Support for Women

Mrs Filippini handing in her credentials to Agriculture Minister, Mr Michael Katambo

The 2021 theme for International Women’s Day Theme is Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world. Coincidentally for FAO Zambia, the genesis of the COVID pandemic last year, brought for the organization, its first-ever female country representative in Zambia.

Mrs. Suze Percy Filippini took office as FAO Zambia Representative in July last year; taking over from Dr. George Okechi. She is an icon of women in science with an academic background as an agricultural engineer with a Master’s degree in agroforestry among other postgraduate degrees.

Her journey with the United Nations began in 1988 when

OVER SOWING THE RANGELANDS - A SUCCESS STORY FROM KATETE

Some members of Bombwe Communal Rangeland in Katete, in 

session with their area extensions service officer

Much of Zambia’s rangeland are being depleted mainly due to human activity. For smallholder livestock farmers, this has translated into limited grazing land for their livestock and consequently diminishing nutrition levels most especially during the 7 month dry period of May to November.

In Bombwe area of Katete district, smallholder livestock farmers are actively working to establish a sustainable communal grazing system through which they believe they will improve the nutrition and consequently the value of their livestock.