News
05 March 2023
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 Women Pioneers of Ainata (Raedat El Rif Ainata), couldn’t stand helpless...
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 Women Pioneers of Ainata (Raedat El Rif Ainata), couldn’t stand helpless...
19 January 2023
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 Insecurity Analysis. The situation is expected to worsen in the coming months. The analysis predicts that...
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 Insecurity Analysis. The situation is expected to worsen in the coming months. The analysis predicts that...
UN Lebanon Supports Better Agricultural Practices to Improve Crop Yields and Protect the Environment
16 January 2023
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 water upon their belief that this will yield better...
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 water upon their belief that this will yield better...
27 December 2022
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 production all over Lebanon. This insect...
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 production all over Lebanon. This insect...
25 December 2022
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 project “Promotion of Good Agricultural Practices, including Integrated Pest...
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 project “Promotion of Good Agricultural Practices, including Integrated Pest...
