Rome – Two institutions, one from Nepal and one from Lebanon, both firmly rooted in their rural communities, today won first and second place respectively under the new Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Awards Programme. The A

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 21 March the International Day of Forests in 2012. The Day aims at raising awareness of the importance of all types of forests. On this occasion, countries are encouraged to undertake local, national and inte

On March 8, Japanese Ambassador MAGOSHI Masayuki joined FAO Representative in Lebanon, Nora Ourabah Haddad for a visit to beneficiaries of the FAO project “Increase resilience of vulnerable smallholder farming families affected by the economic crisis and

The Ministry of Agriculture launched the Farmers' Registry in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Lebanon (FAO) during a ceremony held on the second of March at the UNESCO Palace under the patronage of Prime Min

Located at 108 kilometers from Lebanon’s capital Beirut, Ainata Al Arz rises 1,620 meters above sea level between Bsharri and Baalbek Districts in Northern Lebanon. There, Helene Rahme, an active woman farmer and member of an informal women group called

Beirut - Around 2 million people in Lebanon, including 1.29 million Lebanese residents and 700,000 Syrian refugees, are currently facing food insecurity, according to Lebanon’s first ever Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Acute Food Inse

Ali Al-Khatib, 35, inherited his business of potato cultivation in Kfarzabad, Beqaa- Lebanon, from his family. He began working with his father at the age 15 relying on the heavy use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and large amounts of irrigation w

With its 2 200 ha of stone pine forests, Jezzine area in South Lebanon, is well known for pine nuts production. However, the outbreak of the Leptoglossus occidentalis seed bug during the last decade has resulted in a decrease of 80 percent in nut producti

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is committed to the highest standards of conduct for its employees and has a zero-tolerance policy towards any form of harassment, sexual exploitation, or abuse. It is also accountable to a

Under the Patronage of H.E the Minister of Agriculture Dr. Abbas Hajj HASSAN, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Lebanon (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) organized on 6 December 2022 the closing ceremony of the proje

More than one thousand  small-scale farmers’ will be able to reclaim their unproductive lands,  construct water reservoirs and do on-farm complementary works (terracing, retaining walls, planting of tree seedlings, installing more efficient drip irrigatio

Traditionally, most farmers in Lebanon depend on chemical fertilizers and pesticides to have better yields and control pests. They believe that increasing the quantity of chemical fertilizers would indefinitely increase their crop yields. In this context

Inaam is a farmer from Nabatieh. She is the only income maker of her family. With farming being crucial for her living, she looked for help from a FAO project to reclaim her land and grow olives, wheat and lentils. Inaam applied to the call launched in 2

Twenty participants from the Regional Services and Agricultural Centers of the Ministry of Agriculture and from the Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute (LARI) attended a training on irrigation water management and the use of Aquacrop model. The trai

Good management is a major component in the success of an irrigation system and giving the crop enough water to take up during its growth without degrading the soil resource, plant nutrients or wasting water, is not an easy task. In this context, the Foo

Lebanon relies on food imports and specifically wheat to cover 80 percent of its food needs. However, the total volume of these imports is decreasing due to the declining availability of foreign currencies and removal of subsidies on food and fuel. Prices

The role of women in the agrifood system in Lebanon is still not well recognized due to high informality of their tasks making their contributions to the agrifood system undervalued. Yet, women in rural areas who account for almost half of the agricultura

It was a sunny Friday morning when UN staff in Lebanon embarked on an environmental mission to plant 1000 locally sourced seedlings on the occasion of UN Day in one of the reforestation sites managed by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Fa

Freekeh is a cereal food made from unripened wheat that has been roasted and crushed into small pieces. It is mostly and especially used in Middle Eastern cooking. The wheat is harvested while the grains are still soft green. It is then piled and sun-dri

World Food Day is celebrated every year on 16 October to commemorate the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). World Food Day 2022 launches a resounding call to Leave no one behind, through Better Production, Bett