Videos
Gender equality and GBV campaigns at the heart of FAO’s work in Lebanon
25/02/2022
Under the framework of the FAO project “Support to Women's Cooperatives and Associations in the Agri-food Sector in Lebanon", funded by the Government of Canada, FAO contracted International Alert to conduct a Gender Equality and a Gender Based Violence awareness campaigns.
Enhancing the Resilience of Vulnerable Refugee Communities through Cash-for-Work
03/02/2022
This FAO project is funded by the Government of Korea and implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of the Agriculture, the Municipality of Anjar, AFDC and LRI NGOs. It aims at implementing reforestation and forest management activities in addition to planting a green belt along the agricultural roads and around the fields.
Beekeeping for Women empowerment in Lebanon
01/02/2021
This video highlights the role of women in beekeeping as a forest-based jobs. FAO promotes forest-related activities and jobs that generate income to local communities, including women and vulnerable groups. Beekeeping and honey production is one of them.
Lebanese farmers benefit from agricultural input vouchers
29/01/2021
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Lebanon in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture distributed vouchers to farmers for the purchase of agricultural inputs during August and October 2020. Around 1000 farming families (around 5 000 individuals) in Akkar and Baalback-Hermel benefitted from the vouchers.
Upgrading the Technical Agriculture Education System in Lebanon
27/04/2020
The FAO project “Upgrading the Technical Agriculture Education System in Lebanon” is funded by the Kingdom of Netherlands and implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, UNICEF, ILO and AVSI. The project works on enhancing the employability of young Lebanese and displaced Syrians and other refugees in Lebanon.
Investing in agricultural infrastructure Promoting livelihoods and employment
02/04/2020
The project is both a humanitarian and development initiative, where it aims at reviving agricultural livelihoods and creating employment. It builds the capacities of Green Plan (a subsidiary of the Ministry of Agriculture) and supports mare than 1 200 small-scale Lebanese farmers through investment in agricultural infrastructure
Farm Business Schools. The Lebanese experience
07/02/2020
FAO Lebanon adapted and developed the Farm Business Schools (FBS) approach in Arabic for its use in Lebanon but also in the Arab region. It launched it for the first time in 2019, through the “Promotion of Agricultural Livelihoods and Employment through Investment in Land Reclamation and Water Reservoirs” project funded by the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
FAO supports the Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute to introduce Quinoa production to Lebanon
10/02/2016
Quinoa production was introduced to Lebanon through a FAO technical cooperation project over two years. Nineteen varieties of quinoa seeds were provided to the Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute. and tested for their suitability to various agro-ecological zones, different sowing dates and agricultural practices.
Emergency cattle vaccination campaign in Lebanon
29/04/2015
Concerns over the spread of high impact transboundary animal diseases are mounting in Lebanon and neighbouring countries as millions of refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria have brought with them large numbers of unvaccinated sheep, goats, cattle, and other animals.
Poultry Farmer Field Schools in Lebanon
09/12/2014
Farmer Field Schools (FFS) are based on an innovative, participatory and interactive learning approach in which farmers are empowered to direct the learning process. Groups of 25-35 farmers meet regularly to consult and make decisions on project implementation, with the support of facilitators.
FAO The Power of Resilience
04/12/2014
Emergency Vaccination and Targeted feeding of Livestock Grazing in Areas along the Syria-Lebanon Border