Tunisia _ January 2022_ The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Tunisia supported the efforts of the Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture to reach the objective of improving water productivity for a strategic crop in Tunisia: the olive tree. Within the frame...

Amman - February 1, 2022 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Royal Scientific Society (RSS) signed today a letter of agreement to support community engagement in integrated forests fire management.

This agreement falls within the ...

EBRD and FAO organised training courses with farmers and exporters on pesticides management and microbiological contamination

Director-General opens FAO Regional Conference in Iraq with call for joint regional action

Participants in regional conference pledge support for inclusive and sustainable rural and agricultural development, promoting food security for all

FAO’s Director-General highlights the region’s vulnerability to the impacts of the climate crisis at FAO Regional Conference for the Near East

February 2022 - The Government of the Sultanate of Oman, through the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries Wealth and Water Resources has signed a USD 949,388 (OMR 365,040), two-year Project Agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the...

FAO programme on RPW Eradication and the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

22 February 2022 – The Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Jordan, Eng. Nabil Assaf, carried out a field visit today to the hydroponics, aquaponics and fish hatchery systems in the AlFaisal nursery in Jerash Governorate, in th...

• Her Excellency Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment, opens Global Leaders’ Symposium by underlining the UAE’s growing global role in building sustainable food systems • Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia February 28, 2022

The regional workshop of the Red Palm Weevil Management Program of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was opened

To train experts and program managers on the implementation of Farmers Fiel...

Joint FAO/UNICEF/WFP Press Release

“The Abu Dhabi Declaration” supports partnerships between international organizations and the Near East Region to enhance food security; and the KIAAI honors winners

19 March 2022, Baghdad - Under the patronage of His Excellency the Prime Minister, Mr. Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, His Excellency the Minister of Agriculture, Eng. Muhammad Al-Khafaji, inaugurated the activities of the thirteenth agricultural week on the grounds of the Baghd...

22 March 2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), and the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ) conducted a three-day training from 27 February to 1 March to improve the technique of Palestinian oliv...

14 April, 2022 Amman, Jordan  – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative in Jordan, Eng. Nabil Assaf, H.E Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Mr. Nasser Shraideh, H.E Minister of water and Irrigation Eng. Mohammad Al Najjar, H.E Minister o...

Cairo, 19 April – Food loss and waste (FLW) are a manifestation of poorly functioning agrifood systems. They have negative impacts on the economy, food security, nutrition, and the environment. Recent estimates by FAO

After 37 sessions organized on water accounting under the project "Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Water Efficiency/Productivity and Water Sustainability in the NENA Countries", the Water Accounting in Use webinar series will continue in 2022. Building on what has been presented, the new sess...

April 2022, Ninewa, Iraq – The new FAO Strategic Framework is designed around ‘four betters’: Better Production, Better Nutrition, Better Environment and Better Life. Following the announcement of thes...

27 March 2022, Palestine – Reducing a person’s individual water footprint, combating collective and individual water misuse, overuse, and waste and is essential everywhere. Therefore, #EveryDropCounts - Water is life. Water is food. Water is you...