Understanding the logic behind farmers' choice of adaptive water management practice is important to appreciate the opportunities and challenges they face and to scale targeted solutions effectively. This paper aims to understand the main drivers of change that induce adaptation in water management. The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) framework that juxtaposed...

Two in three children between the ages of 6 months and 2 years are not getting the nutrients and food they need for healthy growth and development (UNICEF, 2023). Our food systems are major drivers of this problem. Current food systems processes, such as production, farming, processing and global supply...

The rehabilitation of the northern part of Homs-Hama irrigation network under the European Union-funded smallholder support programme in the Syrian Arab Republic was designed within the context of supporting agricultural productivity and sustainable use of water resources. The comprehensive multidimensional capitalization study led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

Food losses and waste (FLW) in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) are persistently high and point to the inefficiencies, unsustainability and inequalities characterizing most agrifood systems in the region. The region needs a transformation of its agrifood systems to deliver healthier diets, strengthen food security in every dimension_availability,...

In an effort to assist the Iraqi Government in addressing the challenges currently faced by the displaced farming population in their return to farming, the International Organization on Migration (IOM) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have agreed to collaborate on a joint study to...

Rabat - The future of cooperation between Morocco and the European Union (EU) in the fishing sector will be determined through comprehensive assessments conducted by the Moroccan government in consultation with European partners, Morocco's Foreign Minister has said.    Speaking during a press conference following the third Ministerial Meeting of the Atlantic...

The four-year initiative, called Center for Renewable Energy in Aquaculture (CeREA), is funded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Cairo. The initiative reflects Norway's commitment to enhancing nutrition, promoting job and value creation and empowering local fish value chain actors with climate-smart technologies, particularly small- and medium-scale fish farmers in Africa. Commenting on...

 Food systems stakeholders in Albania, Jordan, and Morocco have gotten a boost from a project funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to operationalize their food systems transformation pathways. “SFS-MED: a multi-stakeholder...

Avec une production annuelle d'environ 41 000 tonnes, la contribution des secteurs de la pêche continentale et de l'aquaculture reste modeste par rapport au potentiel hydrique et biologique de la région du Maghreb. Pourtant, ce secteur pourrait soutenir le développement de l'offre alimentaire et contribuer à la lutte contre la...

A leading Saudi university has started employing artificial intelligence to help preserve Red Sea fish species and assess their sustainability. Through its innovative scientific research and various data-based methods, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology is using algorithms to analyze masses of statistics about fish populations, fishing practices, and...

This work was part of the CGIAR Gender Platform and the CGIAR Initiative on Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africa.  A groundbreaking new research strategy identifies priorities to advance gender equality in agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for adapting and building resilience to climate change.   The newly...

The documentary film about the steadfastness of Palestinian women farmers in  Gaza/Palestine reflects the continued struggle of urban and peri-urban women agripreneurs to restore food sovereignty and face challenges. These activities of the Urban Women Agripreneurs Forum (UWAF) come as an extension of the partnership project between the Gaza Urban...

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest showcases the latest contents uploaded in the FFKP to provide its readers with relevant and up to date information on family farming main themes such as agroecology, smallscale fisheries, pastoralism, indigenous people, and more.

We were launching a rural tourism project just as the Covid-19 pandemic startled the world. How ironic, after waiting years for funding for our local organization Nawaya, we were incapable to do basic field work. We were excited, and decided not to delay important work. As we were unable to...

Au collège d’El Maâmoura, les élèves s’initient aux joies de la permaculture, une belle façon de joindre l’utile à l’agréable. «La terre m’a enseigné la plus belle des vertus : la patience. Plus on y sème de l’amour et de la persévérance, plus la récolte sera fructueuse».Voilà des paroles empreintes...

Elsa Varela is a postdoctoral researcher with expertise on silvopastoral systems, rural livelihoods and environmental valuation of ecosystem services in the Mediterranean. She recently joined the Social-ecological Interactions in Agricultural Systems group to investigate innovative strategies for improving the sustainability and resilience of multifunctional landscapes and their associated farming systems. Read on to...

Small-scale family farmers are the backbone of rural communities in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region. Despite their extensive participation in the agricultural sector, these types of farmers and their farms are disproportionately affected by poverty, ultimately constituting about 70 percent of the poorliving in the region. Apart...

Migration has always been an integral part of people’s lives and livelihoods in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region. At least some of this migration is partly driven by a deterioration in environmental conditions and an increase in the frequency of weather extremes (e.g. drought, sea level rise,...

Waterlogging and shallow groundwater (GW) have caused many environmental problems in many places worldwide due to poor irrigation and nonfunctional drainage systems, particularly with flood irrigation (Ochoa et al., 2007, Zhang et al., 2021). The groundwater depth (GWD) is often considered an essential factor in controlling ET rates (Devitt et al., 2002). Consequently, higher ET rates...

Funded by the Government of South Korea, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) implemented the project “Enhancing the Resilience of Vulnerable Refugee Communities through Cash-for-Work in Anjar” in 2019 and 2020, in collaboration with the Ministry of the Agriculture, two partner NGOs, Lebanon Reforestation Initiative (LRI),...