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Syrian Arab Republic | FAO and Kuwait partner to support vulnerable households
21/09/2020
“The long years of crisis left us poor, we couldn’t afford to buy bread for the family,” said Fiya Hassan, 66, who is a grandmother of eight children from Ibtaa sub district of Daraa Governorate in southwest Syria.
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Lebanon and Jordan: Enhancing resilient livelihoods and food security of local communities and refugees
17/09/2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture in Lebanon and the Ministry of Agriculture in Jordan, and in partnership with IFAD and WFP, launched the project entitled “Enhancing resilient livelihoods and food security of host communities and Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon through the promotion of sustainable agricultural development”.
Syrian Arab Republic | FAO promotes efficient methods to enhance cattle production
15/09/2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under its Smallholder Support Programme (SSP), will support vulnerable small-scale livestock keepers with an integrated intervention to help improve their livelihoods.
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Syrian Arab Republic | Belgium supports FAO to improve livestock keepers’ food security with integrated interventions
03/08/2020
Without an intervention, more animals, which are a source of food and livelihood, will be lost, resulting in increasing rates of food insecurity.
Syrian Arab Republic: FAO supports the global animal health campaign to eradicate peste des petits ruminants
09/07/2020
Animals are a source of both a food, and a source of livelihood in the Syrian Arab Republic.
FAO Syria releases Seed Security Assessment findings
19/06/2020
Damascus - 16 June 2020: Seed availability of major crops has been a serious challenge for Syrian smallholder farmers in the past 10 years due to the damage to the agricultural system caused the conflict.
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Time to harvest the honey: Syrian returnees find new livelihoods in beekeeping
15/05/2020
The improvement of the security situation in Daraa Governorate in southwest Syria has allowed thousands of displaced families to return to their homes.
FAO distributes egg incubators to improve rural families’ livelihoods in the Syrian Arab Republic with support from DFID
30/04/2020
An implementation of an integrated and innovative intervention has sustained a source of food and income for the most vulnerable resident in villages along the river in Deir Ez-Zor Governorate in the Syrian Arab Republic.
FAO continues to support vulnerable farmers in the Syrian Arab Republic carry out agricultural activities safely during the COVID-19 pandemic
14/04/2020
As part of the programme to enhance the livelihood opportunities of smallholders, FAO Syria has been assisting 700 producers in the country to improve the quality and quantity of their vegetable production through nurseries that utilize low tunnels to produce seedlings, which will ultimately be transplanted in fields.
Once dry farm lands in the Syrian Arab Republic are productive again thanks to FAO’s rehabilitation of irrigation facilities
30/03/2020
“The dryness and unproductiveness of our lands made us feel poor. However, today we celebrate green lands after having enough water to plant.