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International pledging conference aims to raise billions for Syria and neighbouring host countries. Rome – Some $121 million are  urgently needed to prevent further deterioration of the food security situation and the collapse of regional food chains amidst the ongoing crisis in Syria, which has severely disrupted agricultural production and trade...

FAO has taken immediate action to rehabilitate the seed industry in Iraq after the war in 2003. Working with the Iraqi Government, our focus was to help rehabilitate damaged infrastructure, provide internal and external training programmes for people in key seed industry disciplines and to review the Iraqi national seed...

Talks at the Global Forum of Food and Agriculture also focused on the post-2015 development agenda and the FAO Conference in June. Berlin – FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva has highlighted some of the most important events on the organization’s 2015 calendar during meetings with agriculture ministers who attended the...

Agricultural rehabilitation gets under way, but $38.5 million still needed to protect livelihoods, food production. Wheat seeds, fertilizer and animal feed are starting to roll out to nearly 28,000 farming families in Iraq whose livelihoods have been left in tatters as a result of hostilities -- part of an FAO effort...

Favourable crop forecast for 2014 now in jeopardy as people flee homes and farms during main harvest Over 1 million people so far have fled their homes and farms since January, leaving behind jobs and possessions just as the main harvesting season for wheat and barley crops was getting under way....