The potential of Turkey’s Konya Closed Basin to adopt an environmentally more sustainable approach to crop production – known as Conservation Agriculture – will be discussed at a three-day international conference opening here today.  Attended by represe

FAO:  ‘Communicating effectively about forests and the role they play is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals’ Strengthening strategic communications on the importance of forests and forestry in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Centr

Funds will help countries in the region improve food security, rural development and natural resource management.

Counterfeit seeds cheat farmers of the high-quality, high-yielding crops they rely on to make a decent living. A new law – drafted with help from FAO legal experts and adopted recently by the Parliament of Georgia – protects the market from falsified seed

The future of “green jobs” in the forest sector is the focus of an international workshop opening here today. Promoting and developing green jobs, identifying new skills that will be needed by the European forest sector, and supporting sustainable develo

People are interested in modern agricultural biotechnologies and biosafety, but often they lack the knowledge needed for informed discussion – or the public space in which to debate the issues. This week in Ankara, government officials and renowned scien

A modern national food safety system for Ukraine’s fishery products – in line with European Union requirements – is the overarching goal of a new FAO project launched here today. Funded by Norway and carried out in close collaboration with Ukraine’s Mini

Food production is one of the major causes and simultaneously the greatest victim of climate change. While weather extremes and other changes pose a risk to agriculture, current farming practices definitely contribute to the problem. The good news is tha

Montenegro is the latest in a growing list of countries to sign on to a powerful new international agreement to fight illegal fishing practices. The FAO-brokered Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unr

Drought is an ordinary and accepted part of everyday life in Central Asia, but climate change and increasing economic demands pose a growing threat to the region’s water security, making it imperative to shift toward more aggressive drought management pol

The potential of organic agricultural production in Kazakhstan – and its contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals – was the focus of a high-level event here today, organized jointly by FAO and Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Agricultu

The steppes of Turkey’s Anatolia region are ecologically important yet vulnerable ecosystems, covering nearly 40 percent of the country. Now a new FAO project is bringing into focus the steppes of Sanliurfa province – known for its rich biodiversity and w

The village of Krokhino was first mentioned in a monastery chronicle in 1426. It became famous centuries later, when its Nativity Church remained above water after construction of the Volga-Baltic Waterway in 1961 inadvertently turned the whole area into

Resolving contentious trade issues through the World Trade Organization (WTO) is the subject of a regional workshop taking place here today, organized by FAO in collaboration with Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. The event bring

Development of the handicraft sector as a means of creating jobs in Kyrgyzstan’s rural areas is the focus of roundtable discussion taking place here today. The event, organized with support from FAO, will present the results of an FAO pilot project carrie

More than 40 percent of economically active women in Armenia are employed in agriculture, compared to about 30 percent of men. The vast majority of those women are informal workers on family farms however, and this fact has major implications for rural li

The FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia organized a Regional Workshop on the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (hereinafter “TFA”) impact on agrifood trade in the framework of FAO’s regional initiative Improving Agrifood Trade and Market Integr

Effective management of water resources on irrigated lands, monitoring of irrigated and arid pastures, water conservation in irrigated agriculture, and the influence of agroforestry and protective afforestation on water conservation were the focus of the

As farmers well know, plants are forever subject to threats like insects, fungi, viruses and weeds. How can plant pests and diseases be treated effectively, without harm to the natural environment in which they grow? Farmers and plant production and heal

Serbian meat producers can now apply for the “Serbian quality – Srpski Kvalitet” label - the country’s first national quality label - to set their products apart in the market. At a press conference held on 22 May in Belgrade, the Ministry of Agriculture