Productive Sector
1. Agriculture
2. Livestock
3. Fishery and Blue economy
4. Water and Land Resource Management
5. Rural Development (particularly small-scale and women/youth-led)
In Somalia, productive sector remains not only the backbone of the country`s economy but also the main source of income, employment, and livelihood.
Despite the tremendous and potential resources (millions of animals, fertile cropland, and longest coastline in mainland Africa ), the Somali climate-sensitive productive sector is handicapped and remained fragile to the recurrent and persistent shocks and crises (i.e. droughts, floods, infestations including recent locust, animal diseases, pirates etc.).
This is on top of the other structural weaknesses such as insecurity, poor infrastructure and capacity coupled with the poor resource management, low level of investment as well as the risks and uncertainty associated with climate change impacts.
These challenges impacted the most vulnerable households (pastoral, agro-pastoral, farmland, and coastal communities) who depend on these productive resources and deteriorated the food and nutrition security status of millions of Somalis.
In response to this, SOSDO through its expertise, contributes to addressing of these challenges and development of the sector and its dependents through evidence-based research, solutions, and policy analysis as well as implementation of the key interventions at field level.
1. Agriculture
2. Livestock
3. Fishery and Blue economy
4. Water and Land Resource Management
5. Rural Development (particularly small-scale and women/youth-led)
In Somalia, productive sector remains not only the backbone of the country`s economy but also the main source of income, employment, and livelihood.
Despite the tremendous and potential resources (millions of animals, fertile cropland, and longest coastline in mainland Africa ), the Somali climate-sensitive productive sector is handicapped and remained fragile to the recurrent and persistent shocks and crises (i.e. droughts, floods, infestations including recent locust, animal diseases, pirates etc.).
This is on top of the other structural weaknesses such as insecurity, poor infrastructure and capacity coupled with the poor resource management, low level of investment as well as the risks and uncertainty associated with climate change impacts.
These challenges impacted the most vulnerable households (pastoral, agro-pastoral, farmland, and coastal communities) who depend on these productive resources and deteriorated the food and nutrition security status of millions of Somalis.
In response to this, SOSDO through its expertise, contributes to addressing of these challenges and development of the sector and its dependents through evidence-based research, solutions, and policy analysis as well as implementation of the key interventions at field level.
