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

Forty-three facilitators (41 from the Ministry of Agriculture in Lebanon and one facilitator from FAO Jordan and another from the Jordanian Ministry of Agriculture) are now able to guide dairy cow keepers to manage their farms and make their agricultural

Across multiple value chains, women producers’ potential is restricted by a division of roles and responsibilities between women and men that exclude women from decision-making process. Their participation in value chains is critical, yet they still fac

Rome – The global ceremony marking this year’s World Food Day 2023 took place here today, against a backdrop of increasing world hunger and conflicts. In particular, participants stressed water’s critical role in underpinning our food security and how we

FAO Lebanon and DIEM are pleased to share the brief for the fifth-round of Data in Emergencies (DIEM) Monitoring in Lebanon. This brief presents the main findings of the assessment conducted between August and September 2023, in close collaboration with L

  Minister of Agriculture, Abbas Hajj Hassan, and FAO Representative in Lebanon, Nora Ourabah Haddad, signed a project agreement today funded by the Government of Canada (CAD$20 million). The project aims at increasing the adoption of gender-responsive,

In light of the current economic crisis and with the aim of increasing the area planted with wheat, the Food and Agriculture Oraganization of the United Nations (FAO) in Lebanon  in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Lebanese Agricultur

Cows, sheep and goats represent a vital asset for many vulnerable farmers and play a significant role in rural farmers’ food security and livelihoods. Livestock keeping has a significant impact on rural well-being and poverty alleviation as the livestock

Funded by the Government of Canada through the Lebanon Recovery Fund, and as part of the Joint United Nations Productive Sectors Development Programme (PSDP), the Food and Agriculture Organization concluded today a project that positively impacted over 40