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...

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...