Tunis 28 November 2019: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a Maghreb workshop on small-scale fisheries in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Hydraulic Resources and Fisheries of Tunisia and involving participants from the five Maghreb coun...

Experts and decision makers meet in Tunisia to address Water Scarcity

FAO and Kuwait restore wheat capacity production for returnees and fire-affected farmers in Hama and Daraa Governorates

Workshop to strengthen African Union Member States for surveillance and Integrated Management of the Fall Army worm – Spodoptera frugiperda

Tunis/Cairo 10 December 2019

With innovative ideas from young Tunisians, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concluded in Tunisia the Regional Conference on Improving Water Productivity in Agriculture in the Near East and North Africa.

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14 December 2019, Cairo - FAO's Director-General QU Dongyu today met with Ezz El Din Abu Steit, Egypt's Minister for Agriculture and Land Reclamation. The Minister expressed his appreciation for the Director-General’s participation in the World Youth Forum, which kicked ...

Qu Dongyu arrives at the Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa and meets staff for breakfast

15 December 2019, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, the Secretary-General of the Arab League, today discussed their joint efforts to end poverty and hunger as they met on the sidelines of the World Youth Forum in Sharm El-Sheikh in ...

15 December, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt - FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, and Egypt's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shoukry, today signed an agreement aimed at strengthening their joint collaboration to support the country's rural women and youth.

As they endorsed th...

15 December 2019, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today met with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, on the margins of the World Youth Forum.

The President expressed appreciation for the Director-General's support to and participation in the ...

FAO Director-General speaks at World Youth Forum

16 December 2019, Cairo, Egypt - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held a consultation workshop to present and discuss a “Code of Conduct” for guiding the public sector in taking action to reduce food loss and waste (FLW). The workshop gathered ...

Tunis 30 December 2019

In collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Hydraulic Resources and Fisheries, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concluded a Program for training of trainers in Solar Powered Irrigation Systems as part of the...

The Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture and FAO launch the year under the theme "protecting plants, protecting life"

Amman - January 8, 2020 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) to provide capacity building and technical support for the Integrated Agri-Aquaculture (IAA) farming systems in water-strapped Jordan.
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FAO Syria to launch entrepreneurship-training programme to modernize farmers’ attitudes

FAO points to the need to turn food systems into accelerators of the Sustainable Development Goals

Next stop: Regional Conference for the Near East in Oman

Bari, 29 January 2020 – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has organized in collaboration with CIHEAM-Bari a pre-conference meeting in Bari, Italy to promote the plan to establish a regional trust fund that will support strategic programme to face tr...

Amman - February 10, 2020 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) launched Monday a pioneering project to provide capacity building and technical support for the Integrated Agri-Aquaculture (IAA) farming systems in Jordan.