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Azerbaijan goes digital: accelerating agricultural census methods through FAO support
09/07/2025

Sites in the Republic of Korea, Portugal and Tajikistan recognized as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems
09/07/2025

Strengthening legal pathways to land and property rights for Kosovan rural women
01/07/2025
Advancing gender equality and ensuring equitable access to land and property for rural women is essential for sustainable rural development. To promote increased equity in land tenure, a series of legal advisory workshops were recently held in Pristina, Prizren, and Istog, bringing together over 130 licensed notaries and municipal cadastral officials from across Kosovo1. Three workshops held on 24 and 31 May and 14 June 2025 were organized under a project on promoting rural women’s empowerment, that is jointly implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and UN Women, with financial support from the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), and in close collaboration with the Notary Chamber of Kosovo.

Regional workshop in Bishkek promotes uptake of climate-smart agricultural practices
27/06/2025
Agriculture remains a vital sector for employment in Central Asia. As the region faces significant challenges, including climate change, land degradation, and limited farmer access to innovative technologies, the adoption of advanced and adaptive farming practices becomes increasingly crucial. On 10 June, a three-day Regional Training on Climate Smart Agriculture began in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), as part of its project Small Farmers as Agricultural Innovators for Sustainable Agrifood Ecosystems.

Tajikistan hosts workshop to promote gender-transformative approaches in fisheries and aquaculture
26/06/2025
Women across Central Asia and the Caucasus play a critical role in fisheries and aquaculture value chains. Typically, they are involved in pre- and post-harvest activities, such as net mending, fish processing, marketing and trade, while men take on fishing roles, particularly in coastal and deep-sea waters. To address these challenges, the Central Asian and Caucasus Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Commission (CACFish), in collaboration with the Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and FAO’s Representation in Tajikistan, convened a national workshop in Dushanbe to bring together policymakers and practitioners in support of gender-transformative approaches in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors.

FAO regional workshop discusses response to ruminant disease outbreaks in Europe
26/06/2025

FAO envisions a sustainable agricultural sector in Europe and Central Asia
24/06/2025

FAO webinar helps strengthen national SDG reporting in Turkmenistan
20/06/2025

Tracking Europe’s forests through FAO’s remote sensing survey
18/06/2025
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has trained European experts in advanced remote sensing methodologies that will help generate consistent, comparable and high-quality data on the region’s forests. At a week-long training event hosted by the French National Institute for Geographic and Forest Information (IGN) in Saint-Mandé in May, 12 experts from France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine learned to use Collect Earth Online (CEO) – an open-source software for satellite image interpretation – to collect data for assessing forest extent, trends and drivers of change from 2000 to 2024 based on a statistical sample.
