FAO continues to support women through vocational training under a project for Syrian refugees and Turkish members of host communities. Kamar’s training in gastronomy is provided through an FAO project titled “Increase Self-Reliance and Improve Agricultural Livelihoods of Refugees through Employment Opportunities.” The project is funded by the European Union and the Government of Turkey, and it is jointly implemented by FAO, the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

By adopting a five-year action plan today in Budapest, FAO and the Eurasian Economic Commission committed to continue and deepen cooperation. This act enforces both parties’ pursuit to realize their mutual goals and objectives in achieving food security a

Kazakhstan has strengthened its commitment to improving the safety of raw milk and dairy products with the signing of a roadmap in the country’s capital Nur-Sultan that will bring the national dairy industry to the level of the Eurasian Economic Union (EA

Because every facet of agricultural activity depends on the weather, unpredictable weather patterns caused by climate change and other meteorological phenomena have increased the need for precise weather data. With careful planning and research, agromete

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) continues to protect the lives and livelihoods of conflict-affected people. Households from 52 settlements along the “contact line” will be provided with day-old chickens and animal feed. T

Stronger, more efficient promotion of agrifood products and new methodologies and indicators in agriculture and rural statistics are among the positive changes expected during the implementation of two new FAO projects in Republic of Moldova. The project

Northern Montenegro is a culinary treasure trove. There, one can feast on traditional dishes not found elsewhere in the country – like locally raised lamb stewed in milk, or kacamak, a typical porridge made with local buckwheat. But the region’s gastrono

The International Plant Protection Convention Secretariat, housed at FAO headquarters in Rome, in collaboration with the Government of Armenia, is holding a workshop on 24 to 26 July, as part of an FAO project on the production of grape phylloxera-resista

Every morning at dawn, Khojamiyor Umarov leaves his house in the Mastchoh district of Tajikistan and rides his motorbike through the small hills and rocky terrain of this agrarian area in the northern part of the country. As he has done for more than 20 years, he is checking the fields for locusts.

A number of civil society organizations conducted a seminar for the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia on 5 July, focusing on the UN Declaration of the Rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas. Organizations included the Eur