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...

New report outlines risks associated with region’s water challenges and the policies needed to address them.

17 September 2018, Muscat - Every year, global crop yields are reduced by 20 to 40 percent because of damage from plant pests and diseases. International experts from the Near East and North Africa and the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) will unite forces to h...

FAO confirms importance of Tunisia's commitment to fight hunger by curbing food waste

Transfer of expertise in crop mapping by remote sensing

27 September 2018, Damascus -  This year, for the first time, the Syrian agricultural sector featured an assessment of crop yields using modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). This offers the prospect of more accurate and cost-effective...

2 October 2018, Muscat - The Government of the Sultanate of Oman aims to develop the citrus industry sector by improving the programme on the production and multiplication of citrus plant propagative materials through the production of certified “free of pathogens” citrus plan...

2 October 2018, Cairo, Egypt – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region is working to improve energy access to strengthen resilience through the

New technical cooperation project aims at developing investment strategies for fishing communities affected by migration

7 October 2018, Cairo, Egypt – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) are jointly working to advance country-driven and regionally integrated actions intended to address key issues and acc...

FAO and Islamic Development Bank gather countries to discuss future of agriculture in the region

9 October 2018, Rome - Extreme weather conditions during Syria's seventh year of conflict has caused domestic cereal production to decline sharply, two UN agencies announced today.

Wheat production this year fell to a 29-year low of 1.2 million tons, about two-thirds o...

Sustainable agriculture at the core of disaster risk reduction measures in Africa and Arab States