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<...

Joint Press Release from FAO and the EU

FAO Syria and Kuwait support returnee rural families with vegetable seedlings

Under the framework of the regional project “Implementing the 2030 Agenda for water efficiency/productivity and water sustainability in NENA countries”, one of the key activities is implementing different Farmer Field Schools (FFS) in the eight studied countries. Palestine one of the countries...

September 22, 2020 - A combination of climate change, population pressure, pollution and use of inappropriate cropping patterns and farming techniques has been depleting the aquifer of the Gaza Strip, threatening food production and farmers’ incomes.

To address these ch...

Amman, 22 September - Three United Nations agencies, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP), are partnering with the Ministry of Agriculture in Jordan to launch a project that is funded...

Ministerial declaration adopted by FAO Regional Conference endorses FAO’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme and Hand-in-Hand Initiative to help transform food systems

FAO Director-General highlights COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme and calls for enabling multi-sectoral policies, innovation, well targeted investments, and vital agricultural activity

Ministers and other representatives recognize several challenges and present possible solutions facing NENA countries on food and agriculture

August 2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is undertaking gender-responsive water assessments to assess the relative situation of women and men in different communities regarding water access, governance, and use in order to ensure that wat...

17 September 2020, Saudi Arabia – The Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA), in partnership with the Regional Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for Near East and North Africa and FAO’s office in Saudi Arabia, on T...

(NERC 35) for 2020: “Transforming Food Systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”

14 September 2020, Cairo, Egypt – FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa and the Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC) have hosted today a virtual technical regional meeting to discuss efforts to control desert locust in...

7 September 2020, Oman – With the aim of promoting sustainable food systems and contributing to the improvement of food and nutrition security in the Sultanate, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Zubair Small Enterprises Centre (Zubair SEC) – a social impact initi...

July, August 2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) have successfully installed water level and Ec sensor devices in each of  Al-Minya and  Kafr El-Sheikh go...

Amman, August 13, 2020 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Jordan has launched on Wednesday the first  of a series of training workshops on integrated management of the red palm weevil for date palm farmers in Jordan.

The workshop...

FAO and Denmark in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture partner with local universities to create green jobs for university graduates

11 August 2020, Cairo - FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for the Near East and North Africa Abdessalam Ould Ahmed today presented the Seniority Award Medal to Osama Salah El Din, who completed twenty-five years of uninterrupted service with the Organi...

Multiple Cities, 29 July 2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing, today, a webinar for another imminent global threat to plant health and crop production in Xylella fastidiosa (Xf), now on the doorsteps of the Near East and North ...

27 July 2020, Cairo, Egypt – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), jointly with the League of Arab States (LAS) and in partnership with Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), has hosted today a workshop to discuss the