25 April 2018, Jordan – FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for the Near East and North Africa (NENA) Abdessalam Ould Ahmed praised Jordan’s agriculture and water management practices and called the region to take note.

This came during the First ...

Conflict undermines resilience and can force individuals and households to engage in increasingly destructive and irreversible coping strategies that threaten their future livelihoods, food security and nutrition.

In the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, conflict is the main dri...

Countries of the region discuss challenges and progress towards food security and nutrition at FAO Regional Conference

9 May 2018, Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is celebrating today the 40^th anniversary of nine country representations in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) – along w...

9 May 2018, Rome – The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region is facing unprecedented challenges that are greatly affecting its countries’ capacity to sustainably increase food supplies and expand the contribution of the agricultural sector to poverty reduction and national ...

"FAO ensures transfer of technology and technology and contributes to the evolution of agricultural production systems"

Ministers, senior state officials and representatives of local and international organizations mark another milestone in FAO’s cooperation and ¬partnership with Egypt

Damascus, 27 May 2018 – The government of Japan announced the second phase of funding for the UN’s ‘Education for All’ joint programme in Syria, bringing the total support to the programme to US$25.5 million. Anchored in the No Lost Generation Initiative, the ...

June 3, 2018, Cairo, Egypt – Based on their joint vision, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Egyptian Food Bank launched an awareness campaign to reduce food wastage in Egypt and the region, contributing to the creation of hunger-free com...

25 June 2018, Cairo, Egypt- The Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Egypt and the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), with the participation of the relevant ministries, held yesterday an awareness-raising workshop on Tra...

Through FAO, the EU will provide cash-for-work to improve access to water

 

3 July 2018, Beirut, Lebanon – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a training of trainers workshop with the participation of six member countries on the use of information technology for plant protection and controlling quarantine pests.

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Workshop launching a new project for the development of the olive sector in Tunisia

More than 90 representatives from 16 African countries discuss and define future areas of ECTAD work

9 July 2018, Cairo, Egypt – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has hosted the first preparatory meeting for the second Near East and North Africa (NENA) Land and Water Days, in attendance of numerous key partners.

The Land and Water Days are jointly convened by...

10 July 2018, Cairo, Egypt - The Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Disease (ECTAD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Egypt (FAO Egypt), in collaboration with FAO’s Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa (FAO RNE), organized a...

The request came during two workshops held in FAO in cooperation with MARL, MSIT and EBRD

7 August 2018, Damascus, Syria- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has organized a workshop to present the results of studies conducted on the value chains of tomato, dairy products and barley/wheat in Syria, under European Union funding.

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"FAO and WHO promote new food control assessment instrument"

The FAO family in the Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa remembers our colleague Fawzi Karajeh after a year of his passing. Karajeh’s impact and work in the organization as a Senior Water Resources Officer still lives on, showing the important role he played in FAO’s projects a...