“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...

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.

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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...