Cairo, 23 June 23 2022 - Children's undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies continue to pose the biggest nutritional health burden worldwide. Diets that lack diversity, nutritional value, and food safety are frequently to blame for childhood malnutrition.

The Food...

21 June 2022, Rome - The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today unveiled MedSea4Fish – an ambitious long-term programme that wi...

20 June 2022, Cairo – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Near East and North Africa has launched today the implementation of the Global Action on Green Development of Special Agricultural Products:

Better mastery of standard operating procedures and simulation exercises as emergency preparedness tools.

16 June, Saudi Arabia - The National Center for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating Desertification (NCVCCD) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) organized a special event on Thursday, 16 June 2022 at the Riyadh Fairmont Hotel, to obser...

Amman/Cairo | 15 June 2022 | Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Near East and North Africa Region, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNIC...

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...

Amman, Jordan, 13thJune, 2022 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) inaugurated its new solar-energy system at its premises in Jordan. With its launch, the system is expected to enhance business continuity and reduce the climate impacts of FAO Jor...

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...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a Farmer Field School (FFS) workshop on the fifth of June 2022 in Qalqilya, Palestine with the main objective of presenting the results of the two avocado FFS’s implemented in Falamya and Qalqilya, Palestine. The works...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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�...

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” ...

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...