18/01/2023 Ankara, Türkiye – Between 30 November and 1 December 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and FAO jointly organized a workshop and training course on “Gender Analysis and Gender Mainstreaming in Agriculture and Forestry”. The purpose of the workshop, which took place in Antalya, was to increase awareness and basic skills in gender analysis and gender mainstreaming practices among Ministry staff at...

19/12/2022 Sudan - Applying the large-scale land restoration model devised by Action Against Desertification (AAD), the BRIDGES project (Boosting Restoration, Income, Development, Generating Ecosystem Services) has brought restoration up-to-scale in Kassala in eastern Sudan, a region bordering Ethiopia and Eritrea affected by drought and climate variations, which only receives less than 150 mm of rain between August and October.

08/12/2022 Antalya,Türkiye – Wheat is the world’s most widely grown crop and a major food security commodity in Central and West Asia, as well as in North Africa. However, rust diseases constitute a common challenge in almost all wheat-growing regions. Without doubt, the most effective approach for their management is the development and use of resistant varieties. 

FAO Türkiye Partnership Programme on Food and Agriculture and FAO Türkiye Forestry Partnership Programme Joint Review Meeting was held online on 28 November 2022. In the meeting held with the participation of representatives of FAO, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, the roadmap for the upcoming process was discussed while the...

04/11/2022 With 18% of total degraded land, Mauritania is the Sahelian country with the second highest rate of land degradation. The country is especially affected by the encroachment of moving sand, with severe impacts on people and the environment. At the same time, it also has a very high restoration potential: 19.1 million hectares of land, which corresponds to almost 20%...