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                FAO Project Will Track S. Sudan Food Production

   by Andrew Green

   The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Thursday
   launched a $9 million project aimed at helping South Sudan to better
   track food production, a move that officials hope will allow alerts of
   possible food shortages to be raised well ahead of time.
   The three-year project would replace the current system, under which
   "we don't really know how much food is produced, by whom, of what type,
   when is it available, how much of it is lost to post-harvest losses,"
   Sue Lautze, the head of office for the FAO in South Sudan said of the
   current system which will be replaced by the new one.
   The new standardized system is expected to facilitate
   information-gathering and -sharing about food supplies in a country
   where the FAO has said as many as 4.1 million people could go hungry
   this year.
   South Sudan Minister of Agriculture Betty Achan Ogwaro, said the system
   will allow officials to focus on preventing food crises instead of
   having to respond to them.
   Officials will go out into the field, gather data and transmit
   information about crop yields, weather patterns and other
   agriculture-related issues back to a centralized database.
   Centralizing data will make it easier for officials to analyze
   information and zero in on areas of potential concern, the FAO chief
   technical advisor for the new data collection program, Diress Mengistu,
   said.
   Training for Ministry of Agriculture employees on how to standardize
   data collection will begin in the coming weeks, he said.
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