Inaam is a farmer from Nabatieh. She is the only income maker of her family. With farming being crucial for her living, she looked for help from a FAO project to reclaim her land and grow olives, wheat and lentils. Inaam applied to the call launched in 2

Traditionally, most farmers in Lebanon depend on chemical fertilizers and pesticides to have better yields and control pests. They believe that increasing the quantity of chemical fertilizers would indefinitely increase their crop yields. In this context

More than one thousand  small-scale farmers’ will be able to reclaim their unproductive lands,  construct water reservoirs and do on-farm complementary works (terracing, retaining walls, planting of tree seedlings, installing more efficient drip irrigatio

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is committed to the highest standards of conduct for its employees and has a zero-tolerance policy towards any form of harassment, sexual exploitation, or abuse. It is also accountable to a

Under the Patronage of H.E the Minister of Agriculture Dr. Abbas Hajj HASSAN, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Lebanon (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) organized on 6 December 2022 the closing ceremony of the proje

With its 2 200 ha of stone pine forests, Jezzine area in South Lebanon, is well known for pine nuts production. However, the outbreak of the Leptoglossus occidentalis seed bug during the last decade has resulted in a decrease of 80 percent in nut producti

Ali Al-Khatib, 35, inherited his business of potato cultivation in Kfarzabad, Beqaa- Lebanon, from his family. He began working with his father at the age 15 relying on the heavy use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and large amounts of irrigation w

Beirut - Around 2 million people in Lebanon, including 1.29 million Lebanese residents and 700,000 Syrian refugees, are currently facing food insecurity, according to Lebanon’s first ever Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Acute Food Inse

Located at 108 kilometers from Lebanon’s capital Beirut, Ainata Al Arz rises 1,620 meters above sea level between Bsharri and Baalbek Districts in Northern Lebanon. There, Helene Rahme, an active woman farmer and member of an informal women group called

The Ministry of Agriculture launched the Farmers' Registry in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Lebanon (FAO) during a ceremony held on the second of March at the UNESCO Palace under the patronage of Prime Min

On March 8, Japanese Ambassador MAGOSHI Masayuki joined FAO Representative in Lebanon, Nora Ourabah Haddad for a visit to beneficiaries of the FAO project “Increase resilience of vulnerable smallholder farming families affected by the economic crisis and

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 21 March the International Day of Forests in 2012. The Day aims at raising awareness of the importance of all types of forests. On this occasion, countries are encouraged to undertake local, national and inte

Rome – Two institutions, one from Nepal and one from Lebanon, both firmly rooted in their rural communities, today won first and second place respectively under the new Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Awards Programme. The A

“I love my town deeply, and I want it to serve as a model for other towns in Lebanon”. These were the words of Hrair, our civilian hero, a 35-year-old man residing in Anjar, located in the Bekaa Governorate. Hrair’s work primarily centers around agricultu

Women cooperatives take part in HORECA’s 2023 exhibition Joumana, Marie and Samira came all the way from their villages to Beirut city to join HORECA, the yearly hospitality event for four consecutive days in April 2023. Each one of the three women repr

FAO Lebanon supports cooperatives through capacity building and grants On 1 July, the cooperative movement celebrates the 2023 International Day of Cooperatives. As natural vehicles of collaborative partnership and prosperity for all, cooperatives contri

Afraa Al Raii, Mariam Hamadeh, Diala Al Raii, Ibtissam Soultan, and Amal Hamadeh are members of the Souaneh Women Informal Group. They actively work together with 15 other women coming from the Souaneh village in the Nabatieh Governorate, to prepare moune

Lebanon will be joining other stakeholders this October in Malta for the GFCM High-level conference on MedFish4Ever initiatives: Transformative actions to address new challenges.  The event comes six years after the launch of the MedFish4Ever Ministerial

What to consider in agricultural practices to ensure high productivity and safe produce? What is soil testing? How to effectively use fertilizers based on soil test result? How to apply personal safety measures to avoid occupational hazards in performing

FAO Representative in Lebanon, Nora Ourabah Haddad, signed a project agreement today with the Minister of Agriculture, Abbas Hajj Hassan. The project, funded by the European Union, will contribute to the improvement of the living conditions, food security