Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - In a bold step toward transforming agricultural resilience and biosafety in Southern Africa, Tanzania hosted a landmark regional training workshop focused on digitizing plant pest surveillance systems. The five-day workshop brought together experts from ...

In rural Lebanon, farmers embarked on a journey of learning and growth through Farm Business Schools implemented by the trained facilitators from the Ministry of Agriculture and funded by the European Union. Developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Farm ...

Sulaymaniyah - Under the auspices of H.E. Mr. Qubad Talabani, Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq marked a major step toward safeguarding its agricultural heritage and enhancing its food security with the laying of the foundation stone for the first-e...

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – With support from the European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (ECHO), FAO, IFRC and WFP, Zimbabwe is making significant progress in shifting from reactive to proactive disaster risk management. This week, over 50 stakeholders from government, UN ...

Rome/Port Sudan – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a large-scale emergency seed distribution campaign targeting 1.5 million farming households – or approximately 7.5 million people – across 17 out of Sudan’s 18 states.

The 2025...

The Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme has sought to balance and strengthen wildlife conservation with the well-being of rural communities through an approach emphasizing the rights of local communities. Now, a new report highlights the programme’s progress from 2018 to 2024.

Papua New Guinea - The EU-STREIT PNG Programme, the European Union’s first Global Gateway flagship initiative in Papua New Guinea, highlighted recent programme achievements in boosting rural development at the EU Day Global Gateway Exhibition in Port Moresby.

Visitors were able to learn ...

Harare – With support from the global aquatic value chain development programme FISH4ACP, Zimbabwe has made significant strides in enacting its first-ever fisheries and aquaculture bill. The draft bill, which was recently validated by key stakeholders and is set to appear...

Lusaka – In Zambia, a regional workshop is taking place to help coordinate the first comprehensive fisheries stock assessment of Lake Tanganyika in over two decades. Organized by FAO in collaboration with Zambia's Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, the Lake Tanganyika A...

Rome/Banjul – With the endorsement of a co-management plan, cockle harvesters in The Gambia’s Foni region now have a say in how their resources are managed. The plan marks a breakthrough in sustainable fisheries governance and women’s empowerment in The Gambia. 

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Wewak, Papua New Guinea – A determined group of vanilla farmers in Mandi Village, Turubu Local Level Government (Wewak District, East Sepik Province), has struck a major deal to export vanilla beans to a buyer in Singapore. Supported by the EU-STREIT PNG Programme, over 200 farme...

Rome – A significant milestone in global plant health capacity development was achieved with the launch of the IPPC Plant Health Campus, during the 19th Session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-19). Developed under the "Strengthening Food Control and Phytosanitary Capacities and G...

In Mauritania, rising temperatures are fuelling Sahara expansion and desertification, leading to food insecurity and poverty. However, farmers like Teslim are growing vegetables, fruit, forage and chickens by restoring fertile land with the support of FAO's Action Against Desertification progr...

Rome - The Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS), an inter-agency platform which works to increase transparency in international food markets, welcomed a EUR 1.2 million contribution from the European Union’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (D...

Dar es Salaam - Amid growing international interest in the role of fisheries and aquaculture in feeding a growing global population while keeping the planet healthy, over 200 experts and policymakers are meeting at the 

Nairobi/Rome — The Food and Agriculture Organizat...

Rome/Brussels - The European Union (EU) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concluded on Thursday the Third Monitoring Meeting for the EU-FAO Strategic Dialogue with a call to scale up efforts to transform agrifood systems to make them more effic...

Erchissaran, a young scientist in her twenties, founded Speck Materials LLC, a start-up that creates paper from cow manure. Her work is a powerful testament to the role of science in the agriculture sector because it highlights how research and innovation can be applied to transform agricultural ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a 15 million euro ($16.29 million) project funded by the European Union (EU) to help Uganda’s forestry sector contribute more sustainably to the economy and the environment. The five-year Sustainable Wood-Based Value Chains in Uganda initiative, to be implemented by FAO, aims to ensure the sustainable supply of legal wood raw material from planted forests, enhance the processing capacity and market demand for wood products and improve the availability of and access to affordable finance.

Work in progress to strengthen the mahi-mahi sector in the Dominican Republic was discussed at a meeting of key stakeholders in Dominican fisheries, where a report on the sector by the global fish value chain development program FISH4ACP was presented.