Nineveh, Iraq, 26/08/2021- For the purpose to complement the humanitarian efforts carried out by the United Nations in Nineveh Governorate, and within the framework of supporting income generation for returning families and local communities, the Food and Agriculture Orga...

29 August, 2021, Amman - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations completed the first day of the Farmer Field School (FFS) training on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for Fall Armyworm (FAW).

This training falls within the regional activities of “Emergenc...

Amman (5 September2021) –The National Committee for Food Security, supported by the Ministry of Agriculture in cooperation with United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme (WFP), successfully concluded a 2-day workshop to discuss and endorse the N...

Baghdad, 9 September 2021 - His Excellency the Minister of Agriculture Mr. Muhammad Karim Al- Khafaji honored Dr Salah El-hajj Hassan FAO Representative in Iraq and his team of experts in appreciation of their distinguished and o...

Amman – 13 September, 2021 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding from the European Union through its Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis (the Madad Fund), and in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture launches an advanced Tra...

Efforts critical to safeguarding agriculture-based livelihoods as potential locust upsurge threatens to worsen an already precarious food security situation

Tunisia _September 2021_ FAO in Tunisia has supported the Ministry of Agriculture, Hydraulic Resources and Fisheries in setting up a multidisciplinary team specializing in water accounting. This national team will be responsible for carrying out the water accounting exercise in a sub-basin of ...

Amman - October 3, 2021 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched today a training on the utilization of GIS for improving forest fires prevention, early detection, control and documentation.

This training falls within the activities of “Enhancing ...

October 2021_The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Tunisia supported the Tunisian National Institute of Field Crops (INGC) to update the mobile irrigation management application "Irey". Dedicated for Tunisian cereal growers, this appli...

Accroître la résilience des populations de montagne et protéger les environnements de montagne sont des besoins prioritaires

The launch of a regional FAO emergency response project to combat fall armyworm (FAW) in the Near East North Africa (NENA) region has meant new training activities in four countries – Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, plus the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A series of workshops and lectures has pr...

2.8 million hectares of forests lost in 30 years and 3.3% of rangelands degraded

Amman, 21 october,2021 –  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) joined today the national and the international community in celebrating the World Food Day. As with every celebration, it is an opportunity for acknowledging and celebrating the efforts and succes...

Near East Forestry and Range Commission calls for strengthened efforts to reduce forest degradation and deforestation

Damascus / Syria - 24October 2021, UN-HABITAT, UNDP and FAO in cooperation with the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment will launch the Adaptation Fund project titled “Increasing the Climate Change Resilience of Communities in Eastern Ghouta in Rural Damascus ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has started implementing a webinar series on Remote Sensing (RS) determination of evapotranspiration (ET) which pursues four main objectives, including updating the participants’ knowledge regarding current adopti...