{"id":43884,"date":"2019-09-26T12:44:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T04:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43884"},"modified":"2019-09-26T13:18:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T05:18:54","slug":"kuwait-contributes-two-million-usd-for-faos-yemen-programmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43884","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Contributes Two Million USD For FAO&#8217;s Yemen Programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ADEN, Sept 26 (NNN-KUNA) &#8211; The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), announced that, Kuwait contributed two million U.S. dollars to boost FAO&#8217;s programmes in war-torn Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a statement released by the organisation, &#8220;Kuwait has contributed two million U.S. dollars to boost FAO&#8217;s emergency agricultural interventions and improve food security and nutrition in Yemen.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said that the Kuwaiti funding will be crucial in providing assistance to some of the 8.6 million severely food insecure Yemenis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The generous contribution will help FAO secure and restore agricultural livelihoods. By promoting self-reliance of communities, we are trying to ensure families continue to produce food for themselves, even in times of crisis,&#8221; said Hussein Gadain, FAO representative in Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture in Yemen represents one of the few remaining lifelines, especially for hard to reach rural areas, according to the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The long-running conflict has caused the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, some 24 million Yemenis, or 80 percent of the population, need humanitarian aid and protection, with some 20 million lacking food security, according to previous UN statistics.&#8211; NNN-KUNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADEN, Sept 26 (NNN-KUNA) &#8211; The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), announced that, Kuwait contributed two million U.S. dollars to boost FAO&#8217;s programmes in war-torn Yemen. According to a statement released by the organisation, &#8220;Kuwait has contributed two million U.S. dollars to boost FAO&#8217;s emergency agricultural interventions and improve food security and nutrition in Yemen.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,286,198,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}