# FAO in Somalia: farming, livestock, fisheries and the FSNAU and SWALIM data units

> What FAO does in Somalia: staff, offices and projects, who leads it, funding 2024 to 2026, and what it reports doing in 2026.

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Last checked: 2026-11-12
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## What it does

FAO says it has more than 400 staff and six offices across Somalia, with a support office in Nairobi, Kenya, and a portfolio of 76 projects. It says its work aims at changing agri-food systems in line with FAO's global framework of better production, nutrition, environment and life ([FAO Somalia](https://www.fao.org/somalia/en/)).

The work it reports on its site includes cash help to families hit by drought and floods, veterinary campaigns for livestock, fodder training in Kismayo, water works on the Middle [Shabelle](/en/economy/farming-and-harvests/) basin, market gardens for women farmers, fish for school meals, beekeeping in Odweyne, and land cover mapping ([FAO Somalia](https://www.fao.org/somalia/en/)).

FAO also manages two long-running data units: the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU), which publishes food security analysis for Somalia, and the Somalia Water and Land Information Management project (SWALIM), which publishes river, rainfall and land data ([FSNAU](https://fsnau.org/); [SWALIM](https://www.faoswalim.org/)).

## Who leads it

Etienne Peterschmitt is the FAO Representative in Somalia ([UN Somalia, 15 May 2026](https://somalia.un.org/en/316125-un-agencies-warn-worsening-hunger-and-malnutrition-crisis-somalia-famine-risk-emerges)).

## The money

OCHA's Financial Tracking Service (FTS) records humanitarian funding that donors and agencies report to it. It is not the whole budget of an organisation, and recent years are still being filled in. FTS lists these amounts received by FAO for work in Somalia ([OCHA FTS](https://fts.unocha.org/countries/206/summary/2025)):

| Year | Humanitarian funding recorded (US$) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 49.7 million |
| 2025 | 25.1 million |
| 2026, to November | 23.0 million |

The same figures for 212 organisations are on [this site's aid funding list](/en/institutions/aid-organisations-funding-2024-2026/).

FAO reports that the United Kingdom added £2.5 million through RESTORE, a project restoring riverine ecosystems and water management, to help communities prepare for El Niño floods ([FAO Somalia](https://www.fao.org/somalia/en/)).

## What it reports

In the joint UN statement of 15 May 2026, FAO, WFP and UNICEF said 6 million people, 31% of the population, were in crisis-level hunger or worse (IPC 3+), including 1.9 million in emergency (IPC 4) ([UN Somalia, 15 May 2026](https://somalia.un.org/en/316125-un-agencies-warn-worsening-hunger-and-malnutrition-crisis-somalia-famine-risk-emerges)).

## How the work is shared

FAO works with the federal [Ministry of Agriculture](/en/institutions/ministry-of-agriculture/), the [Ministry of Livestock, Forestry and Range](/en/institutions/ministry-of-livestock-forestry-and-range/) and the [Ministry of Fisheries and Blue Economy](/en/institutions/ministry-of-fisheries-and-blue-economy/), and with state ministries.

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