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The Africa-Arab Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction is a ministerial-level follow-up to the regional implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) in Africa and the Arab States regions.  The conference is hosted in Tunis by the Government of Tunisia and it is co-organized by the United Nations Office for...

The FAO country representation in Egypt is hosting Iftar at FAO RNE garden in Dokki for the launch of the awareness campaign against Food Waste, co-funded by the Egyptian Food Bank and FAO project on "Food Loss and Waste Reduction and Value Chain Development for Food Securiy in Egypt and Tunisia";...

 FAO Regional Conferences are an official forum where Ministers of agriculture and senior officials of Member Countries from the same geographic region meet to elaborate on regional challenges and priority matters related to food and agriculture. Main role of the Conferences is to promote regional coherence on global policies and...

FAO is participating in the Sixth International Date Palm Conference organized by the Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation. The conference will take place in Abu Dhabi during 19 – 21, under the patronage of the President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Several round table...

Muscat, Oman 11-12 December 2017 Background: “Nutrition Transition” If a poor diet is one of the main causes of malnutrition, then the answer seems simple: change people’s diets, and they will become healthier. But what people eat is not entirely based on how they live – their knowledge, attitudes,...