Promoting Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security

Somali Natural Resources Research Center

SONRREC promotes scientific research, policy dialogue, networks, and partnerships to improve the resilience, livelihoods, agricultural innovations, and food security of communities

Challenges

Somalia faces increasingly fragile and degraded fertile agro-ecosystem coupled with many other challenges including severe cycles of drought and floods, insecurity, Weak government institutions, lack of transport infrastructure, salinity in arid and semi-arid areas, low availability of improved or hybrid seed and poor market linkages.

SONRREC Approach

SONRREC works on joint research, capacity building and consultancy with governmental natural resources institutions, universities, and private sectors to mitigate all agricultural challenges.