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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The video presents the first achievements of the project “Youth at Work: Reducing rural poverty”, launched by FAO and the Malian Ministry of Agriculture in August 2014. The project is...
22/12/2015
Mali
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FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva appointed Professor Abdelouahab Zaid as FAO Goodwill Ambassador for in the United Arab Emirates, in recognition of his outstanding work in the area of...
15/12/2015
Remarks by FAO Goodwill Ambassador for the UAE
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Remarks on agriculture, fisheries and climate change by the Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources of Cyprus, Nicos Kouyialis, following a meeting with FAO Director-General.
04/12/2015
Cyprus
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FAO, through the national offices of countries like Chile, Guyana, and Jamaica, has enabled the decision makers –in the ministries of health of the three countries− to talk through one...
23/11/2015
south south cooperation
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The United Nations joint program that integrates FAO as leader, WFP, WHO and UNICEF agencies, was funded by Luxembourg Cooperation. The video explains the steps of Cabo Verde to sustainability...
16/11/2015
UN Joint Programme in Cabo Verde
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The Use of genetic resources to establish a multi country program of evolutionary participatory plant breeding is a project sponsored by the Benefit-sharing Fund in its second round of project...
11/11/2015
Evolutionary Plant Breeding in Jordan
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The Global Information System on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture will make the search for deeper information on diverse data sets easier for the global community by creating...
09/11/2015
Global Information System on Plant Genetic Resources
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This video shows the impacts of the Social Cash Transfer (SCT) Programme in Zambia. The main objective of the SCT is to reduce extreme poverty and to prevent its transmission...
13/10/2015
The Social Cash Transfer Programme - Breaking the cycle of poverty in Zambia
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On the 20th anniversary of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, numerous stakeholders have offered their views about the importance of the Code of conduct and what they see...
06/10/2015
20th anniversary of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries