The role includes championing the sustainable use of terrestrial and marine ecosystems and combatting climate change

8 May 2022, Amman, Jordan - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Jordanian Armed Forces launched today the assessment mission that will use FAO’s Surveillance Evaluation Tool (...

Egypt, 9-12 May 2022 Within ongoing cooperation between the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation in the Arab Republic of Egypt, FAO organized an advanced training program on producing biopesticides and the mass produ...

Amman, Jordan – The Government of Italy and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), launched today a project to increase the resilience of the Jordanian vulnerable communities throughthe “Sus...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with IHE Delft Water Education Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft) have implemented a Regional Water Accounting training to 60 practitioners from the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region from the 11th ...

FAO’s ADG & Regional Representative for NENA meets farmers and stakeholders to discuss opportunities

17 May 2022, Palestine – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority (EQA) signed today a project agreement to boost climate-resilient agricultural practices in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The thr...

Within the framework of the project "Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Water Efficiency/ Productivity and Water Sustainability in the NENA Countries" ​​implemented by FAO and funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), eight experts from FAO and IHE-Delft were trained on a se...

Water accounting has been a topic of interest for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the last 20 years. Water accounting is being used to (i) set sustainable limits of consumption; (ii) make the best use of every drop of water, including non-conventional wate...

FAO-Saudi Arabia in collaboration with the Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture and the Al-Baha Beekeeper’s Association celebrated the 2022 World Bee Day” event in line with this year's World Bee Day theme “Bee engaged: Celebrating the diversity of bees and beekeeping systems” ...

27 May, Valenzano, Italy – On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) Bari Foundation, an international ceremony and the naming of CIHEAM Bari Campus by 𝗖�...

30 May 2022 - Water scarcity is a critical challenge in countries and regions with arid and semi-arid conditions and fast-growing water demands. This is mostly the case in all of the countries across the Near East and North Africa (NENA) Region, where food dem...

30 May 2022, Rabat, Morocco – The Food and Agriculture Organization Regional office for Near East and North Africa (FAORNE), in collaboration with the International Trade Center (ITC), inaugurated a regional training on “Facilitation Trade for Food Security”, in Rabat, Kingdom...

Iraq, Rabea, 30 May 2022 – The rehabilitated North Al-Jazeera irrigation project was officially inaugurated yesterday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Ministries of Water Resources, of Agric...

31 May 2022, Saudi Arabia – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations participated in the International Exhibition and Forum for Afforestation Techniques held at the Riyadh International Center, organized by the Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and ...

30 May 2022, Cairo, Egypt – “Climate change has become one of the most serious challenges we face today, not only because of the threat it poses to economies and development efforts, but also to people's lives and the survival of all living things on the planet,” said AbdulHak...

Designation of HRH Princess Basma bint Ali as FAO Goodwill Ambassador for Near East and North Africa

The eastern area of the Mediterranean Sea is brimming with non-indigenous species – i.e. species that have travelled, often over large distances, and taken root in new waters. These species include fish, jellyfish, snails, prawns, urchins and more.

We know this because a 2021 ...

June 9, 2022 - Within the framework of the United Nations Decade for Ecosystem Restoration, the United Nations Environment Programme Regional Office for West Asia and the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Regional...

13/06/2022 Rome – QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Rabeeah, Supervisor-General of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief), today signed an agreement that w...