Europe and Central Asia Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2024 

This report provides the latest updates on hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in Europe and Central Asia, including the cost and affordability of healthy diets. It also explores the central theme of water security, highlighting its critical connections to agriculture, food security and nutrition. 

Study on the European Union–Armenia Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA)

The report is aimed at analysing Armenia's legal, policy, and socioeconomic environment for CEPA implementation, identifying gaps, and providing recommendations for alignment.The project comprises three main components: legal analysis, agricultural policy analysis, and socioeconomic data analysis. The legal analysis aims to identify CEPA provisions related to agriculture, assess the current legal framework, and make recommendations for regulatory changes. 

Improving food security and nutrition through cash+ in Armenia

FAO has been supporting the Government of Armenia to find effective pathways out of poverty and food insecurity for rural households. This promising practice documents an integrated nutrition-sensitive cash+ approach piloted for the first time in the country in the Gyulagarak community in the Lori region, and in the Marmashen community in the Shirak region. 

FAO Armenia: Immediate Response to COVID-19

This factsheet covers the immediate response activities to COVID-19 implemented by FAO in Armenia. It includes assessments, surveys, monitoring results, as well as highlights the projects activities which respond to COVID-19 results.

This report presents the results of a mixed-method rapid assessment that provides both indicative quantitative information and in-depth qualitative analysis on the household-level impacts of the Cash+ pilot. The Cash+ approach has been developed to reap the benefits of integrating cash transfers with productive support interventions and skills training. 

In 2019, FAO piloted such an integrated approach by implementing a Cash+ project in Lori and Shirak regions in Armenia. 

The Strategy of the Main Directions Ensuring Economic Development in Agricultural Sector of the Republic of Armenia for 2020-2030

With FAO’s support, the Government of Armenia developed “The Strategy of the Main Directions Ensuring Economic Development in Agricultural Sector of the Republic of Armenia for 2020-2030”. The Strategy outlines the key priorities of the agricultural policy of the Republic of Armenia, defines the scope of priority issues, as well as the Action Plan for the implementation of the Strategy for 2020-2022.

Armenia: Country Programming Framework for Armenia 2016 to 2020

This Country Programming Framework (CPF) sets out three government priority areas to guide FAO partnership with and support to the Government of Armenia (GoA) – bringing together innovative international best practices and global standards with national and regional expertise during five years from 2016 to 2020. 

Improving feed supply and enhancing processing in the Armenian dairy sector

Armenia's dairy sector remains underdeveloped and unable to satisfy the domestic demand for dairy products. FAO and other development organizations have worked to improve the productivity of the sector through improvements in genetics.

Gender, agriculture and rural development in Armenia

Gender equality is a key to eliminating poverty and hunger, as it has been demonstrated by the FAO throughout its research worldwide.

Strengthening food security and nutrition in selected countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia

The brochure describes the six pilots of the project "Developing capacity for strengthening food security and nutrition in selected countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia