The presentations made by FAO, UNCCD, UNEP and World Bank, highlighted the state of land degradation and impacts, and responses to land degradation.

13 June 2023, Tunis – Within the framework of the FAO Regional Initiative on Water Scarcity (WSI), and FAO-UMA programme 2020-2023, the FAO sub-regional office for North Africa, in collaboration with th...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute, IHE-Delft, The World Bank, the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI), and EU Water STARS project, have implemented a session at the fourth Cairo Wat...

FAO Director-General: Innovation and experience-sharing across regions key to transforming agri-food systems

25 August, Gabarone, Botswana – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has provided support and funding for the attendance of several national representatives from across the region in the UNFCCC National Adaptation...

20 October 2022_The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized an exchange field visit which aimed to increase the participants’ capacity and knowledge about the in-situ water harvesting techniques regarding its design, construction, data monitoring and data collec...

05 October 2022, Cairo –The FAO Deputy Director-General recently completed a four-day visit to Egypt aimed at boosting collaboration between the Organization and the most populous Arab country; and attending a regional workshop on Fall Armyworm control that gathered representa...

29 November 2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization organized the final regional steering committee for the Water Efficiency, Productivity and Sustainability (WEPS-NENA) project for the Near East and North Africa region in Cairo, Egypt in hybrid mode. The meeting aimed to...

22 January, 2023 – Amman –The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) celebrated Arbor Day, which falls on the 15th of January, with the planting trees planting activity in contribution to the afforestation efforts and v...

FAO is working with Libyan experts for a better use of the Open Access Platform on Water Productivity (WaPOR).

15 December 2022, Cairo, Egypt – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation’s (FAO) Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa (NENA) has organized a regional workshop on sustainable and inclusive management of pastoral ecosystems and their socio-econom...

In July 2017, 15 beekeepers in Jenin, West Bank, aspiring to harness the untapped potential of beekeeping came together to create a support system known as Al Hanoun Honey Cooperative. Unbeknownst to much of the world, numbers from 2020 have placed Palestine as a viable contender in the market...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Area (ICARDA), NGO Watershed and Development Initiative (WADI) for Sustainable Ecosystems Development and the local community, and a local Community Based...

The rapidly deteriorating economic and financial crisis seriously affects agriculture in Lebanon. As most agricultural inputs (agro-chemicals, seeds, animal feed, vaccines and other veterinary supplies, etc.) are imported, the productive capacities of the farmers have been particularly affecte...

Tunis, October 13-15, 2022: Experts from Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, and Tunisia participate in the work of developing a comprehensive framework program, based on the market-based systemic approach, to promote and support the development of resilient agri...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a Farmer Field School (FFS) workshop on the fifth of June 2022 in Qalqilya, Palestine with the main objective of presenting the results of the two avocado FFS’s implemented in Falamya and Qalqilya, Palestine. The works...

July 2021 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the University of Cordoba (UCO) have implemented an online training to 70 participants with the overall aim of calibrating and validating the process of the AquaCrop model for the participants con...

The AgriNation Startup Cup final event took place on October 20th, as part of the 2022 World Food Forum hosted in hybrid format in FAO Headquarters in Rome. Ten startups from across the region, showcased their ideas and competed for a spot in the 2023 Global Agripreneurs Summit (GAS).

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22 March 2019, Beirut – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) actively participated in a special event organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and aimed at commemorating the World Water Day.

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Participating stakeholders shed the light on the countries achievements and contributions to mitigate and adapt to climate change