FAO in Syria

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19 May 2024
The quality and quantity of agricultural production relies on major factors to achieve healthy crops and fresh products, thanks to the help of bees and pollinators that are essential for crops growth, as well as food security and ecosystems restoration. The farmers and people in Syria, and worldwide, realize the importance...
16 May 2024
In Dweir, a distant village on the bank of the Euphrates River in Deir-ez-Zor, a group of Syrian women have transformed their lives after attending sessions at FAO’s Farmer Field School on livestock production. The women farmers have successfully improved their unsustainable agricultural practices and turned their modest production rates...
22 February 2024
Long-standing negative social norms can perpetuate Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) as certain harmful practices can result in the prevalence of gender-based violence (GBV). Early marriage and economic violence are two forms of GBV that are very common in rural farming communities in Syria. In response, FAO is implementing...
05 February 2024
By September 2024, farmers across Syria will be celebrating a new, high-quality calving to support and sustain their animal production and importantly, their income. As part of the Building Local Resilience in Syria (BLRS) project, funded by UK Aid, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has...
31 January 2024
Climate change is causing harmful consequence on agriculture in the Syrian Arab Republic, making farming production challenging for stallholder farmers who already suffer the accumulative impact of more than 12 years crisis, such as inputs soaring prices and their limited availability, water scarcity, destruction of infrastructure and other. Framers do face...
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