Cairo, July 10, 2019 - The food safety system of Egypt is undergoing a major transition: the newly established National Food Safety Authority (NFSA).  NFSA will oversee the safety of food products with th...

Cairo/Rome. 11 July 2019 – Meeting at FAO Headquarters in Rome for its Tenth session, the Regional Commission for Fisheries (RECOFI) has reached agreement on sustainable fisheries management practices for Kingfish (Scomberomorus commerson) in the region.

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Climate change is widely recognized as a global threat - to humans, a wide range of species and to the environment.

Even before the current crisis in Syria, the government was concerned about impact of climate change – rising temperatures; and reduced and/or more erratic rainfall - on i...

Helping vulnerable families regain their agricultural productive capacity

Fertile ground for innovation in the Arab region 

The Arab region has grappled with water scarcity for centuries. But population growth, rapid urbanization, changing diets, forced displacement and climate change are posing new, more urgent water challenges that thr...

FAO welcomes Kuwait’s contribution of $3 million to help Syrian farmers and herders recover

Cairo, August 8, 2019

Diouf has passed away at the age of 81

Slow Food and FAO team up to revive Syria’s agriculture

The IPPC workshops focus on capacity development and the International Year of Plant Health 2020

Tunis – 5 September, 2019 - Mr. Boubaker Karray, Chef de Cabinet of the Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries, and Mr. Philippe Ankers, FAO Representative in Tunisia and FAO Coordinator for North Africa, attended the Opening Ceremony of the national s...

Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture and FAO hold training programs to prevent the pest's entry and spread into the kingdom

Cairo hosts a regional workshop to identify innovative and effective interventions to address the global threat

FAO, IOM and CDARE train experts for a better water future in Yemen

Participants discuss the Sustainable Land Management for Improved Livelihoods in Degraded Areas of Iraq

22 September 2019, New York – FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu today met President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt for talks that focused on working together to improve the agricultural sectors in the country and in Africa as a whole.

El-Sisi, who is also the current Chairp...

FAO and WHO call for action: Addressing poor nutrition and obesity requires action along the whole food chain, from farm to fork

Funding to boost livelihood recovery, improve food security and nutrition

Key regional multistakeholder forum for drafting Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition to reverse growing malnutrition rates

Tunis 27 Sep 2019  The Opening Ceremony of the national start-up workshop for the project on Mobilizing the Potential of Treated Wastewater and Drainage Water for Agricultural Development in libya was launched today in Tunisia, with the presence of Mr. Fathi Biram who represented the Liby...