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12 January 2023
The farmers in Al-Bukamal, Deir Ez-Zor, celebrated the end of 2022 on a positive note, with the restoration of irrigation operation at the Sector 7 pumping station, which is anticipated to irrigate around 7,500 hectares of land in the area. The FAO - UNDP partnership resulted in the rehabilitation and replacement of...
The farmers in Al-Bukamal, Deir Ez-Zor, celebrated the end of 2022 on a positive note, with the restoration of irrigation operation at the Sector 7 pumping station, which is anticipated to irrigate around 7,500 hectares of land in the area. The FAO - UNDP partnership resulted in the rehabilitation and replacement of...
11 January 2023
Entrepreneurs are unique – their mission in life is to craft solutions for the purpose of meeting people/community’s needs, and in doing so to make a good livelihood. In the context of a country that suffered a crisis for more than 10 years, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the...
Entrepreneurs are unique – their mission in life is to craft solutions for the purpose of meeting people/community’s needs, and in doing so to make a good livelihood. In the context of a country that suffered a crisis for more than 10 years, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the...
10 January 2023
Kawkab Al-Yassin’s entrepreneurial initiative in rural Homs has been a lifeline for her neighbours. The mother of three from west Al-Farhaniyah, rural Homs, is making use of her knowledge to manage a production network of ‘mooneh’ - homemade preserved food-, and has successfully used this initiative to create up to...
Kawkab Al-Yassin’s entrepreneurial initiative in rural Homs has been a lifeline for her neighbours. The mother of three from west Al-Farhaniyah, rural Homs, is making use of her knowledge to manage a production network of ‘mooneh’ - homemade preserved food-, and has successfully used this initiative to create up to...
19 December 2022
An innovative, integrated resilience-building approach forms the core of FAO’s collaboration with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO - the UK government aid provider) to implement a five-year project that will support an estimated 32 300 beneficiaries - with a special focus on women, persons with disabilities and young farmers...
An innovative, integrated resilience-building approach forms the core of FAO’s collaboration with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO - the UK government aid provider) to implement a five-year project that will support an estimated 32 300 beneficiaries - with a special focus on women, persons with disabilities and young farmers...
23 November 2022
Being displaced during the conflict was a painful process for many thousands of people in Syria. For Zein Al Abedeen Junaid, a 19-year-old entrepreneur from Aleppo, turned the challenging situation of displacement into an opportunity, by developing a micro family business with his father in As-Safira. Back in 2017, worried about...
Being displaced during the conflict was a painful process for many thousands of people in Syria. For Zein Al Abedeen Junaid, a 19-year-old entrepreneur from Aleppo, turned the challenging situation of displacement into an opportunity, by developing a micro family business with his father in As-Safira. Back in 2017, worried about...
