World Pulses Day 2021: #LovePulses for a healthy diet and planet, 10 February 2021
10/02/2021
World Pulses Day is an opportunity to raise awareness of the nutritional benefits of pulses and their contribution to sustainable food systems and a world without hunger. Pulses are critical in...
Qualification of 90 Engineers to Produce Crop Mapping using GIS to support water accounting in three governorates
24/01/2021
Cairo, Egypt - Ninety irrigation and farming engineers from three Egyptian governorates benefited from the first phase of a training on crop mapping using remote sensing under the project "Implementing...
FAO & MALR invite extension agents to use “El Mufeed” app and disseminate among targeted groups
22/12/2020
Cairo, Egypt - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR) in Egypt held a virtual meeting to...
Supporting Livestock and Animal Health Policy review in Egypt
03/12/2020
Cairo, Egypt - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MoALR) conducted a technical workshop to review the...
FAO & GOVS Updated National Preparedness and Response Plan for Avian Influenza
18/11/2020
Cairo, Egypt - With the view to identifying the capabilities and the critical interventions needed to prevent and respond to endemic and new Avian Influenza virus outbreaks, animal health experts...
FAO continues its Rapid Water Accounting activities in Minya governorate in Egypt
15/11/2020
Minya, Egypt - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) implemented its second Rapid Water Accounting (RWA) workshop for the second site in Minya (1st workshop/site in...
Strengthening Surveillance through Risk Mapping and Spatial Analysis of animal diseases in Egypt
04/11/2020
Cairo, Egypt - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) through its Emergency Center for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) in collaboration with the General Organization of Veterinary...
OH_TAG meeting addresses the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes for both people and animals
27/10/2020
Cairo, Egypt - Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Disease (ECTAD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO-Egypt) has organized today the second meeting in 2020 for...
MALR & FAO celebrate the World Food Day - Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together. Our Actions are our Future!
18/10/2020
Cairo, Egypt - The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) celebrated today the World Food Day 2020, which was...
Strengthening Joint Risk Assessment Capacity at the Human-Animal- Environment Interface in Egypt
06/10/2020
Cairo, Egypt - The Tripartite collaboration among the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Health Organization (WHO), and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) is taking...
On World Food Day 2020, Two competitions for children and youth in Egypt
30/09/2020
Cairo, Egypt - Marking World Food Day 2020, which comes this year under the slogan "Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together. Our Actions are our Future", a number of United Nations organizations...
Campaign to ensure the continuation of precautionary measures against COVID-19
29/09/2020
Cairo, Egypt - The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Program,...
Celebration of World Rabies Day 2020
28/09/2020
Cairo, Egypt - Today is World Rabies Day as the World Health Organization celebrates it every year on the 28th of September. This year we celebrate the fourteenth World Rabies...
Near East and North Africa countries discuss responses to COVID-19 and how to transform food systems during FAO Regional Conference
21/09/2020
Muscat/Rome – The 35th FAO Regional Conference for the Near East started today with the topics of transforming food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and responding to...
Gender responsive water and agriculture assessments start in Egypt
20/09/2020
Minya, Egypt - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is undertaking gender-responsive water assessments to assess the relative situation of women and men in different communities...
FAO, GOVS and AHRI discuss the implementation status of plans and activities for addressing zoonotic diseases until December 2020
06/09/2020
Cairo, Egypt - The Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Disease (ECTAD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with General Organization for Veterinary Service...
Water level and Ec sensor equipment installation and training in Al-Minya and Kafr ElSheikh governorates
25/08/2020
Minya/ Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) have successfully installed water...
Growing Egypt's wheat supply
11/06/2020
Cairo, Egypt - Egypt is improving its wheat supply chain to meet growing demand for bread. FAO and the EBRD are supporting the Egyptian Government and the industry in their...
FAO helps raise awareness on COVID-19 for small-scale family farmers
07/06/2020
Cairo, Egypt – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region is working to provide small-scale family farmers with the needed knowledge to...
OH_TAG meeting discuses emerging and endemic zoonotic diseases situation
27/02/2020
Cairo, Egypt - Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Disease (ECTAD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO-Egypt) has organized today the first meeting in 2020 for...