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 Impact-based forecasts and warnings are increasingly being used worldwide to communicate the risks and potential impacts of climate-related disasters to the end users, thus enabling anticipatory action planning and reducing the impacts of these disasters. Experts and participants expressed these views during the workshop on “Impact-based Forecasting (IBF) and Anticipatory...

FAO Pakistan arranged a four day training on pyWAPOR, a tool developed by FAO allowing the calculation of Evapotranspiration (ET) anywhere on the globe, including Pakistan. The training enabled 25 different stakeholders understand the ET concept and estimate ET at different spatial scales using remote sensing data or satellite images.The...

Closeout ceremony of the project “The Horticulture Advancement Activity” (THAzA), was held in Islamabad on December 8, 2022. Funded by USAID, THAzA improved the livelihoods of rural farmers in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). It supported 12,000 businesses and created 1,300 jobs. It also ensured that rural farmers in these...

A strong common collaboration among all the stakeholders is required to define and achieve the common goal of preventing child labour. Thus concluded “National Consultative Workshop on Elimination of Child Labour in Agriculture/Cotton, Textile and Garment Value Chains in Pakistan” held in Islamabad on December 13, 2022. The workshop was...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in collaboration with the Ministry of National Food Security and Research (MNFSR) organized a validation workshop on “Agriculture Innovation System (AIS): Assessment Findings and Recommendations” in Islamabad.  Assessment of AIS is part of global three-year EU-funded project aimed at strengthening the functional capacities of National...