The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture Jahad have started implementing the crop mapping activities in Qazvin Irrigation Network (QIN) in Iran. This activity contributes to the water accounting component of the inter-...

Water use has been growing globally at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century, and an increasing number of regions are reaching the limit at which water services can be sustainably delivered. By 2025, 1 800 million people are expected to be living in countries...

One in five children under five in parts of Yemen are estimated to be acutely malnourished and in urgent need of treatment as malnutrition cases increase across the south, UN agencies warn.

Tehran – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), as part of its multilateral project to support Iran in reducing the agriculture water consumption in the Lake Urmia basin, equips Iranian experts with the requisite knowledge and skills to implement th...

Living in in A’aba village that lies on the west of Jenin, Palestine, Basem is the breadwinner for his wife and four children, out of which two are university students. Like the rest of Palestinians, Basem and the rest of the farmers in his community struggle with the high cost of irrigation w...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Lebanon in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture distributed vouchers to farmers for the purchase of agricultural inputs during August and October 2020. Around 1000 farming families (around 5 000 individuals) in Akkar and ...

November 2020 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), implemented its second Rapid Water Accounting (RWA) work...

17 November 2020, Cairo - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO) hosted today the first regional Tele-meeting for nominated National Focal Points of the Red Palm Weevil (RPW) programme in the NENA region on Tuesday 17 November 2020. NFP from 12 countr...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Life Vision have started its all women Farmer Field School (FFS) activities on sugar beets in Beni Ebeid and Mansheit ElNasr villages in Minya governorate, Egypt. The...

Jihad Abdel Kader, a farmer from the village of Mresti in Mount Lebanon strived to improve his agricultural products to meet market demand and make more profit. He joined the Farm Business School (FBS) in his village together with a group of “like-minded farmers” to gain new s...

Ten years of crisis and COVID-19 pandemic have affected the farmers’ priorities in the Syrian Arab Republic, where they seek opportunities to produce food for their own consumption, and then find ways to promote their products in the surrounding markets. However; even cultivating their small l...

Yousef Assi, a farmer from Al Mashare village in the Northern Jordan Valley, strived to improve his agricultural products to meet market demand and make more profit. He joined the Farmer Field School (FFS) with other farmers to learn about the usage of pesticides and fertilizers, as well as ne...

The vast majority of Omani farmers are small-scale family farmers and they play an important role in achieving food security and improving livelihoods.

However, they face a number of barriers, including high transaction costs and access to productive services and assets, such as financi...

Tucked away 70 km’s from Muscat’s city center in the coastal city of Barka, lies 10 acres of agricultural land appropriately called “Pairidaeza” (Paradise in the Persian language). What separates this particular stretch of land from the others, is that Pariridaeza is Oman’s first and only cert...

23 November 2020, Rome/Sudan – FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme has contributed 1.5 Million USD to a south-south cooperation project (SSC project) aimed at enhancing production, productivity and competitiveness of the crops and livestock sectors in Sudan. Agricultur...

During 23-24 November, the regional office of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation in Near East and North Africa will host regional virtual training workshop on mass production of natural enemies against Fall Armyworm. Experts from the International Centre of Insect Physiolog...

Joint IFAD-FAO Press Release

25 November 2020, Amman – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Jordan (FAO) organized a workshop focusing on the major disasters facing the agricultural sector and food security. The workshop was under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Ali bi...

“The Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nation (FAO) Subregional Office for the Gulf Cooperation Council and Yemen (SNG) organized a regional virtual workshop for the Near East countries to assist FAO in developing and information system and a gl