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In developing countries, livestock production represents an important part of the agricultural sector with a great role to sustainable farming. Besides being an important food source, livestock can also provide income, energy, and fertilizer, as well as employment, and can be useful in weed control and utilization of marginal lands....

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Tajikistan has requested FAO to support the development of a roadmap for digitalizing the agriculture sector and strengthening the knowledge of advanced applications of digital technologies in agriculture. As part of FAO’s Technical Cooperation Programme, the project “Provision of technical assistance on...

Migration, a complex phenomenon with a multitude of root causes, has diverse impacts on rural populations, food systems and the rural economy. While these impacts vary from country to country, the rural areas of Europe and Central Asia are particularly affected by labour migration. FAO has identified the need for enhanced...

10:00-13:30 p.m. CET Agricultural biotechnology is built with competencies and technical skills that describe the fundamental use of it in plant as medicine and food and defined as a set of tools that use living organisms or parts of it to make or modify a product, improve plants, trees, or develop...

The workshop will include a methodological session on estimating support to agriculture using a comprehensive system of measuring and classifying support to agriculture according to OECD methodology. Additionally, the application of the policy monitoring methodology in Albania, the Republic of Moldova, Kazakhstan will be presented as practical examples. The second part...