24/03/2022, Bodrum, Turkey - The international fish trade is expanding due to sustained demand, trade liberalization policies, globalization of food systems and technological innovations. To address these and other issues arising from post-harvest management among actors in the aquaculture value chain, FAO’s timely FISHCap project has organized a three-day regional workshop in Bodrum, Turkey, which concludes today. 

Photography exhibition depicting food waste opens in Ankara   12 February 2022, Ankara – In support of the national campaign against food loss and waste in Turkey, FAO, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Turkey, and the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality have jointly organized a ground-breaking photography exhibition by the Austrian photographer Klaus Pichler entitled “Grown for a Bin”. The exhibition shows unconsumed food...

31/01/2022 Ankara – Rural women provide significant contributions to agriculture and food security while simultaneously taking care of their families and households. This heavy burden often goes unrecognized and uncompensated.

5 January 2022, Ankara – A regional workshop on fish health management and fish diseases took place on 20-22 December 2021 in Antalya, Turkey. The workshop was a collaboration with the Aquaculture Producers Central Union of Turkey (SUYMERBIR) organized under the project “Capacity Building for Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture Management in Central Asia, Azerbaijan and Turkey (FISHCap)”, funded by the...

20/12/2021, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan - FAO and the Government of Turkmenistan signed an agreement on 11 December 2021 for the joint implementation of a project entitled “Improving the efficiency of small ruminant production to reduce GHG emission intensity”. The official ceremony took place on Turkmenistan Neutrality Day.