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Ukraine has become the 5th country to sign a Government Cooperative Programme (GCP) agreement with FAO under the EC funded Regional project Improving capacities to eliminate and prevent recurrence of obsolete pesticides as a model for tackling unused hazardous chemicals in the former Soviet Union. The agreement has been signed...

Fruit production has previously been the most profitable element of the cropping pattern in Armenia. Therange in altitude of the country and variety of soil-climatic conditions have created conditions for theproduction of apricot, peach, plum, cherry, apple, pear, quince, walnut, peanut, fig and pomegranate. Ofthe total orchard areas of 34,780...

The CPF 2013-2015 for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has been signed on 14 March 2013 by H.E. Ljupco Dimovski, Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy, Mr Tony Alonzi, O-i-C for the Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, and Ms Deirdre Boyd, United Nations Resident Coordinator in the Former Yugoslav...

The State Minister of Georgia of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Alex Petriashvili and Ambassador Philip Dimitrov signed in Tbilisi a new Financing Agreement totalling €40 million: European Neighbourhood Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development in Georgia (ENPARD). The ENPARD allocates €40 million to increase food production in Georgia and reduce rural poverty. The 5 years programme...

FAO-Georgia was a Co-organizer and a key presenter of the 19th DWVG Forum on Georgian Agriculture: Developments and perspectives hosted by the German House in Tbilisi. 20 February 2013 – Tbilisi, Georgia. German Business Association Georgia (Deutsche Wirtschaftsvereinigung Georgia - DWVG) is a long-term reliable partner for FAO Representation in Georgia – it supports...

The outcome of the project is a Integrated pest management program with a recommended National action plan, that serve as a tool for policy development of the Government of Georgia and technical implementation by the National Food Agency.

Dr Dyno Keatinge, Director-General of the World Vegetable Centre and Chair of a consortium of international agricultural research centers operating in Central Asia and the Caucasus under the aegis of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), and Dr Jozef Turok, ICARDA Regional Coordinator, visited  FAO...

There have been significant changes both in the role of FAO in Tajikistan and in the government’s attitude to agricultural reform. FAO has evolved since 2009 from an obscure provider of emergency support to a leading player in the process of agricultural reform.

The project provided a valuable contribution to the further development of this field in Ukraine and its efforts to comply with the relevant EU regulations.

President of Azerbaijan calls hunger one of the “greatest curses of the 21st century”