FAO in Lebanon

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28 September 2021
Over a period of two weeks, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Lebanon, through a project funded by the European Union, trained facilitators on the Farm Business School (FBS) approach. The facilitators are now able to guide farmers from all over Lebanon in managing their farm...
17 September 2021
The rapidly deteriorating economic and financial crisis seriously affects agriculture in Lebanon. As most agricultural inputs (agro-chemicals, seeds, animal feed, vaccines and other veterinary supplies, etc.) are imported, the productive capacities of the farmers have been particularly affected by increasing input costs resulting from the rapid devaluation of the Lebanese...
31 August 2021
Dramatic changes are taking place in farming worldwide as a result of globalization, liberalization, and rapid urbanization. Farmers are intensifying existing patterns of production and diversifying their farm enterprises in an attempt to improve their livelihoods. Technical know-how is not enough. To be competitive and take advantage of the new...
23 July 2021
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Lebanon (FAO) under the overall technical leadership and guidance of the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) will be implementing a program to support small-scale farmers funded by a re-allocation of US$10 million from the existing World Bank financed Roads and Employment Project....
22 July 2021
As food systems around the world continue to recover from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN in Lebanon today hosted a virtual Food Systems Dialogue to inform the first-ever UN Food Systems Summit, which will take place in New York in September, about the future of food in...