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 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,...

FAO, World Bank, EBRD encourage private investment in Egypt's agriculture and food sector  5 December 2017 at the Nile Ritz-Carlton Hotel - Cairo Egypt’s agricultural sector is facing a number of challenges such as the impacts of climate change, water and land scarcity, high levels of urbanisation, and an increasing demand for...

During the past year, FAO's office in Egypt has been studying the fish loss and waste (FLW) overall situation in Egypt. An Inception National Stakeholders’ Workshop was organized at the start of the year where FLW challenges and opportunities were discussed among all the actors of the national fisheries and...