July, August 2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) have successfully installed water level and Ec sensor devices in each of  Al-Minya and  Kafr El-Sheikh go...

7 September 2020, Oman – With the aim of promoting sustainable food systems and contributing to the improvement of food and nutrition security in the Sultanate, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Zubair Small Enterprises Centre (Zubair SEC) – a social impact initi...

14 September 2020, Cairo, Egypt – FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa and the Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC) have hosted today a virtual technical regional meeting to discuss efforts to control desert locust in...

(NERC 35) for 2020: “Transforming Food Systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”

17 September 2020, Saudi Arabia – The Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA), in partnership with the Regional Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for Near East and North Africa and FAO’s office in Saudi Arabia, on T...

August 2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is undertaking gender-responsive water assessments to assess the relative situation of women and men in different communities regarding water access, governance, and use in order to ensure that wat...

Ministers and other representatives recognize several challenges and present possible solutions facing NENA countries on food and agriculture

FAO Director-General highlights COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme and calls for enabling multi-sectoral policies, innovation, well targeted investments, and vital agricultural activity

Ministerial declaration adopted by FAO Regional Conference endorses FAO’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme and Hand-in-Hand Initiative to help transform food systems

Amman, 22 September - Three United Nations agencies, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP), are partnering with the Ministry of Agriculture in Jordan to launch a project that is funded...

September 22, 2020 - A combination of climate change, population pressure, pollution and use of inappropriate cropping patterns and farming techniques has been depleting the aquifer of the Gaza Strip, threatening food production and farmers’ incomes.

To address these ch...

Under the framework of the regional project “Implementing the 2030 Agenda for water efficiency/productivity and water sustainability in NENA countries”, one of the key activities is implementing different Farmer Field Schools (FFS) in the eight studied countries. Palestine one of the countries...

Joint Press Release from FAO and the EU

FAO Syria and Kuwait support returnee rural families with vegetable seedlings

30 September 2020, Cairo, Egypt – On Wednesday 30 September, the Arab Women Organization (AWO) announced, at its headquarters in Egypt, the names of the winners in the competition “Designing the Best Mobile Application for Empowering Rural Women in the Arab Region<...

September 2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) is undertaking Rapid Water Accounting (RWA) – the first cycle of a water accounting process. Together, they engage loc...

The FAO project aims at benefiting 31 400 conflict and COVID-19 affected households in planned districts within Shabwah governorate – one of Yemen’s most food-insecure areas

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) uses creative means to celebrate World Food Week and World Food Day across Yemen in accordance with covid-19 restrictions – utilizing social media, radio shows and traditional media through

We do not often express our gratitude for the food we eat to the people who actually produce it, and who make sure that it reaches us. Throughout the years of crisis from 2011, Syria lost its human capital, infrastructure and the resources that farmers relied upon. Despite this, many still cho...

16 October, Amman -  World Food Day, celebrated in over 150 countries around the world, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Jordan are calling for action to improve food production and dist...