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ProjectProjects’ Brief Lebanon 2015 2015
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Lebanon was among the first countries to benefit from a FAO Country Office to strengthen the Organization’s programmes on the ground. Established in 1977, the office has sought to promote harmonious and sustainable development of the agricultural sector in consultation with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and other concerned ministries. FAO activities in Lebanon have generally been demand-driven, attempting to respond to the continuously shifting national priorities. -
Book (stand-alone)FAO in Europe and Central Asia 2012
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No results found.The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. It helps developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since its founding in 1945, FAO has focused special attention on developing country rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world’s poor and hungry people. In 2006, FAO embarked on a major strengthening of its decentralization process, aimed at bringing FAO expertise closer to its member nations and improve effectiveness of FAO’s work at country, subregional and regional levels. FAO works through five decentralized regional offices – Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Near Ea st, and Europe and Central Asia. The Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU), based in Budapest, covers a range of disciplines that support FAO’s mandate to defeat hunger, raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity in a sustainable manner that accounts for the need to conserve and protect natural resources, better the lives of rural populations and contribute to the growth of the world economy. -
BookletCelebrating 40 years in Indonesia
Celebrating a 70-year partnership and 40-years of in-country Representation
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No results found.After seven decades of fruitful collaboration, the work of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today is more than ever aligned with the priorities of host governments in meeting the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 through localized action. As a specialized agency in food and agriculture, and with its feet firmly on the ground, FAO implements programmes and projects in cooperation with its members and partners to achieve the shared goal of #ZeroHunger and all of the other SDGs by 2030. While FAO had previously provided technical support to member countries without having a permanent presence on the ground, the 1977 opening of the first country Representation in Lebanon marked the beginning of FAO’s long-term field presence at national level. In Indonesia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs on behalf of the Government of Indonesia, signed the Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment of the FAO Representation in Indonesia just one year later with the Director General of FAO in October 1978. Hence, our celebration today, marking the 40th year, after which FAO established a permanent presence in Indonesia. Close collaboration between FAO and the Indonesian Government across the food and agricultural sectors, including in fisheries and forestry, has strengthened over the decades, and has resulted in a long term trust and friendship between FAO and many government departments and agencies, as well as non-governmental actors in development. As of today, over 650 projects and programs have been implemented by FAO throughout Indonesia with the assistance of more than 1600 experts and consultants (both national and international). Given still significant levels of rural poverty, malnutrition and rapid urbanization, Indonesia’s challenge is to make agriculture, fisheries and forestry more profitable, while also making these sectors more resilient to the effects of climate change to feed future generations. It is FAO’s ambition to work with key line Ministries to demonstrate good practice through targeted interventions, which can then be scaled up with Government’s own human and financial resources, while also contributing at the policy level to help redirect investment to where it will have a more positive impact on achieving greater food and nutrition security.
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