From black figs to table olives, Turkey’s Bursa region is famous for its fruits and vegetables. Turkey now hopes to strengthen the reputation of Bursa’s horticultural products at home and abroad, helping to raise producer incomes and building sustainable,

As Turkey extends to Africa an offer of increased cooperation – on food security and nutrition, agricultural development, sustainable natural resource management, youth employment and gender, agricultural trade and investment and other technical areas – F

Currants, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries. Eye-catching and delicious, these and other berries could be a key to greater prosperity for rural areas of Moldova. “Berries of Moldova” – a national conference taking place in Chisinau tomorrow – is or

Optimizing farming under existing soil and climatic conditions in Russia’s main agricultural regions was the focus of a roundtable discussion here today at the Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy (RSAU-MTAA). New tec

Mapping the Earth’s surface from above is no longer the exclusive privilege of map producers or the military. Meteorologists can also make good use of satellite images, and channel the data into agricultural planning and production. At a week-long FAO tr

Kazakhstan continued its pursuit of organic agriculture production, certification and marketing this week as it welcomed a group of FAO experts to Astana. FAO investment support officer Kairat Nazhmidenov, senior natural resources officer and key FAO exp

Tajikistan’s roughly 3.8 million hectares of pasture – almost 29 percent of its total land area – feed the country’s meat-producing livestock. But these natural resources, particularly year-round pastures near villages, are being depleted and degraded. S

Integrated community development planning, when applied in a participatory and inclusive way, can reduce rural poverty and lead to sustainable development. That has been the experience of FAO, said Raimund Jehle, Regional Programme Leader for the Organiza

Crop specialists from ten countries of Central Asia, West Asia and the Near East will improve their ability to cope with destructive wheat rust diseases at a week-long workshop opening here today. FAO, the International Center for Agricultural Research i

In just three days, Albania received 200 millimeters of rain that damaged thousands of hectares of farmland, along with greenhouses and other agricultural infrastructure. That was in February 2015. Two years later, things are looking up for Albanian agric