FAO assistance in Afghanistan is centered on six priority areas of support agreed with the Government: Fostering agricultural productive capacity; Improved water resource and irrigation management; Formulation and implementation of effective agricultural policies; Improved natural resource management, through sustainable environmental management; Food and nutrition security and enhanced institutional capacities to address issues regarding food safety and quality; Capacity development for emergency management. [More]

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A group of Serbian farmers and others involved in agriculture visit Hungary on a study tour of organic farming. The visit is part of a two year project sponsored by...
25/04/2015
Serbian Study Tour of Hungary's Organic Farms
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Images of FAO activities and daily life in of FAO member countries in the Pacific Islands. The countries are the Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue,...
22/04/2015
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A video report of the regional conference "Building a future for sustainable small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea" held in Algiers on 7-9 March 2016.
31/05/2016
Building a future for sustainable small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
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Françoise Van de Ven sur les difficultés rencontrées par les entreprises forestières au Gabon. Françoise Van de Ven recense les principales difficultés auxquelles les entreprises forestières Gabonaises font face lorsqu’il s’agit...
30/05/2016
difficultés rencontrées par les entreprises forestières au Gabon
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Entretien avec M. Henri Djombo, Ministre d'Etat en charge de l'agriculture, de l'élevage et de la pêche (République du) Congo, en marge de la 154ème session du Conseil de la...
30/05/2016
Congo
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Entretien avec M. Henri Eyebe Ayissi, Ministre de l’agriculture et du développement rural, Cameroun, en marge de la 154ème.
30/05/2016
M. Henri Eyebe Ayissi, Ministre de l’agriculture et du développement rural, Cameroun
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Árni M. Mathiesen, Assistant Director-General , FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department delivered this Keynote Address to the Blue Growth and Investment Conference on 'Blue Communities –Key to Food Security' held...
18/05/2016
Blue Growth and Investment Conference on 'Blue Communities –Key to Food Security'
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On 12 September 2013, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Country Representative in Uganda, Alhaji M. Jallow, and the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to...
09/05/2016
Belgium funds Euro 3 million climate change project for Uganda
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The European Union, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, the Government of Sweden and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) formalized an agreement to support tropical timber-producing countries to...
08/05/2016
Ending illegal logging, country by country
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Jenny Chandler, food writer, cook and blogger, talks about the many benefits of pulses, the pleasure of cooking and eating them, adding a tip for their regular consumption. She joins...
07/05/2016
Pulses
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Tajikistan’s dairy sector is faced with increasing competition from imports and an acute lack of high-quality domestically-produced raw milk for domestic agro-industries. As a result, stakeholders across the entire value...
04/05/2016
learning on the milky way
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On Earth Day, governments - led by the Permanent Missions to the UN of Costa Rica, Italy, Uganda and Switzerland - called for concerted action to end hunger in the...
29/04/2016
Mapping the vulnerability of mountain peoples to food insecurity