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

Within the project “Improved Water Resources Monitoring System/Integrated Water Resources Management at regional level in Lebanon” funded by the Swiss Embassy, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW) and t...

Following the Council of Ministers’ decision on March 15, 2020, to declare General Mobilization to control the spread of COVID-19, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), launched on March 16, distance online l...

The Government of Palestine officially endorses a new national food and nutrition security policy and a corresponding National Investment Plan

Over a period of two weeks, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Lebanon, through a project funded by the European Union, trained facilitators on the Farm Business School (FBS) approach.

The facilitators are now able to guide farmers from all over Lebanon...

28 November 2021, Amman, Jordan  – Under the framework of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Priority on Rural Transformation, FAO, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) in Jordan, organized a ...

Amman, Jordan – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative in Jordan, Eng.Nabil Assaf, H.E Minister of Agriculture Eng. Khaled Hnaifat and with the presence of Her Royal Highness Princess Basma bint Ali, the founder of the Royal Botanic Garden and FAO Regional ...

Tripoli, 13 March 2023: The third national workshop, currently taking place in Tripoli, is part of the capacity-building programme developed within the framework of FAO's two complementary projects:  “Monitoring, evaluation and rationa...

2 June 2023, Saudi Arabia - The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have joined forces to enhance the productivity of millet and sesame crops in Saudi Arabia.

April 13-14 2022, Cairo, Egypt – The effects of climate change on food security and agriculture sectors across the NENA region have become apparent over the past few years, exacerbated by conflict, COVID-19 and global food crises. Taking the opportunity of its leadership as ho...

24 January 2019, Sanaa -- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) celebrates 40 years in Yemen during a workshop to look back at the main highlights of its 2018 programme, including the Emergency Livelihoods Response Plan (ELRP), and to discuss the pi...

25 January 2022 Cairo, The steering committee of the Water Efficiency, Productivity and Sustainability (WEPS-NENA) project in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region met from the 23^rd to 25^th January in Cairo, Egypt. The meeting gathered the national...

28 March 2022 – Forests and trees are fundamental to tackling climate change worldwide. Halting deforestation and reducing forest and land degradation are among the best nature-based solutions to the climate crisis.  

Understanding and enhancing the poten...