Libya – 29-31 October 2019

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and its local partners concluded the fourth training workshop on fighting Zoonotic diseases in Libya, implemented in the framework of the Emergency Assistance for Outbreaks of Deadly Zoonotic Di...

Changing how countries across the Near East and North Africa region produce food is fundamental

Remote Sensing Technology Assist Experts in Syria to Assess FAO Irrigation Projects’ Impact

Algiers – 18 November 2019: The Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries in Algeria, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), launched the national start-up workshop of a project on unlocking the potential of treated wast...

Towards Improved Indicators for Monitoring the Implementation of the SDGs

26 November 2019 Sana'a / Yemen - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with fund from European Union supported national cadres' capacity building towards early warning systems enhancement in Yemen. The eight-day training program included the topics...

24 November 2019, Cairo/Egypt -- Saudi Arabia has donated $1.5 million to help locust-infested countries in the region control outbreaks. 

Since February 2018, the Central Region has seen large desert locust outbreak. In just eight months, locust swarms swept acros...

26 November 2019 Cairo / Egypt -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa and UN-Habitat Regional Office of Arab States co-organized a Regional Workshop on Strength...

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 ...