With funding from the Government of Norway, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a Technical Stakeholder Workshop as part of the ongoing project “Rehabilitation and Waste Management of El-Bared Canal Irrigation System.”

The workshop convened a diver...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the National Council for Scientific Research-Lebanon (CNRS-L), has conducted a DIEM-Impact damage and loss assessment focused on the impact of the conflict in Le...

More than one thousand small-scale farmers in Lebanon will soon be able to reclaim their unproductive lands, construct water reservoirs for buffering water shortages and do on-farm complementary works. To sustain rural communities, the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture, through its affiliated G...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture have distributed 166 tonnes of high-quality seed potatoes to 415 selected farmers in Bekaa and Baalbek-El Hermel this week. Each farmer received 400 kg of seed potatoes, carefully selected for the...

Funded by the Government of the Republic of Korea, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Municipality of Anjar, has started the implementation of a vital project aimed at strengthening the resilience of vuln...

 Funded by the Government of Canada, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, hosted a workshop to kick off the "Enhancing Food and Nutrition Security in Lebanon" project.

 This workshop was an i...

Nearly a third of Lebanon’s population is facing acute food insecurity following the escalation of conflict in late 2024 and the impact of hostilities on agriculture and the economy mean recovery is likely to be slow, according to a

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in partnership with the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture, conducted a rapid needs assessment in light of the escalation of conflict in Lebanon in September 2024. The assessment aimed to determine the proportion of agricultural ...

In this StoryMap , the FAO Representation in Lebanon and the Data in Emergencies (DIEM) team examined satellite images to assess the potential impa...

The escalating conflict in Lebanon is exacerbating the vulnerabilities of agriculture-dependent communities and deepening an already critical food security crisis. Even before this recent escalation, Lebanon was grappling with the impacts of multiple crises, including a severe economic downtur...

 At the request of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), a joint FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) visited the country from 15 to 28 July 2024, prior to the intensification of the conflict, to estimate the 2024 crop pr...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is ramping up efforts to support the agriculture sector and safeguard food and nutrition security amid the escalating conflict in Lebanon.

FAO is co-leading the reactivated Food Security and Agriculture Cluster in partner...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with Lebanon’s Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), conducted a household survey through the Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) System between 5 and 25 March 2024. This seventh-round survey assessed the...

“Without wheat, we have nothing. We can’t live without wheat, flour, and bread says Mohamad Boukdal, a farmer from Akkar while standing in his field of wheat.

In December 2023, 2 394 small-scale farmers across Lebanon received 250 tonnes of high-yielding soft wheat seeds, distributed in quantities of 50, 100, or 150 Kg per farmer based on the size of their lands.  

In rural Lebanon, farmers embarked on a journey of learning and growth through Farm Business Schools implemented by the trained facilitators from the Ministry of Agriculture and funded by the European Union. Developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

“Give someone a fish, you feed him for a day; teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.” That’s the motto of the facilitators in the FAO transformative project aimed at developing the entrepreneurial skills and improving the livelihoods of rural women in Lebanon. The project is implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and the General Directorate of Cooperatives, with generous funding from the Government of Canada.

Starting in 2016, Lebanon's rugged mountain terrains witnessed a transformative initiative aimed at restoring ecological balance and uplifting rural communities. The "Smart Adaptation of Forest Landscapes in Mountain Areas" (SALMA) project, implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Lebanon in collaboration with the Lebanon's Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and funded by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), is a beacon of sustainable forestry management and reforestation.

Under the Patronage of H.E. Dr Abbas Al Hajj Hassan, Minister of Agriculture, the Embassy of Canada, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, organized today a Partnership Forum on Agriculture and Food Security.

Under the Patronage and in the presence of H.E the Minister of Agriculture, Dr Abbas Al Hajj Hassan, and the FAO Representative in Lebanon, Nora Ourabah Haddad, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Lebanon (FAO) organized the National Stakeholder Validation Workshop on the Upgrading of Lebanon’s Chickpea Value Chain.

FAO has put forward several recommendations on social protection in agricultural communities in Lebanon following a workshop, entitled "Support To Social Protection Policies In Rural and Agricultural Communities," which was organized under the patronage o