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FAO's four priorities - Regional office for the Near East and North Africa
2025
FAO supports the NENA region in addressing climate, security, and food challenges by promoting sustainable agri-food systems and inclusive growth to achieve sustainable development goals.
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025
2025
Despite some progress, global hunger and malnutrition remain off track for 2030 goals, worsened by high food price inflation that hits vulnerable populations hardest. The 2025 report highlights the need for coordinated policies, resilient food systems, and better data to protect access to healthy diets and accelerate progress toward ending hunger.
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2024-2033
2025
The OECD/FAO Agricultural Outlook 2024-2033 contains a consensus assessment of how markets for agricultural, fisheries and aquaculture products are likely to evolve over the next ten years.
The Status of Youth in Agrifood Systems
2025
This summary highlights the key messages from FAO’s report on the state of youth in agrifood systems—the most comprehensive analysis to date. It outlines both opportunities and structural barriers, and offers concrete recommendations for policymakers and development actors.
Situation analysis of farmer registries in the Near East and North Africa (NENA)
2025
The document presents a review of farmer and fisher registries in the NENA region, examining the role these digital tools play in transforming agrifood systems. As the agriculture sector increasingly leverages digital technologies and data-driven business models, the adoption of farmer and fisher registries has become central to improving decision-making and policy formulation.
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Terminal Evaluation of the OASIL Oasis Revitalization Project
2025
This report presents the final evaluation of the OASIL project in Morocco, which aims to enhance oasis agroecosystems’ productivity, resilience, and sustainability while supporting local livelihoods.
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Revitalising oasis agroecosystems through a sustainable, integrated and landscape approach in the Drâa Tafilalet Region
2025
The OASIL project revitalized oasis agroecosystems in Morocco’s Drâa Tafilalet region to enhance productivity, sustainability and community resilience.The project focused on policy dialogue, participatory planning, pilot demonstrations and knowledge management. The project was implemented from 2017 to 2025, after initial delays.
FAO Investment Centre – Annual review 2024
2025
Agrifood systems face growing risks from climate shocks, conflicts, and economic instability. In response, FAO’s Investment Centre offers tailored investment solutions in collaboration with countries and partners. This 2024 Annual Review highlights key achievements and outlines future priorities, as the Centre marks 60 years of support.
Stocktaking and situation analysis of FAO's work with cooperatives and other forms of collective action
2025
Agricultural cooperatives, Producer and Professional Organizations (PPOs), and Water Users Associations (WUAs) in the North Africa and Near East (NENA) region play a crucial role in supporting small-scale family farming, which is vital for the regional economy. Recognized as a strategic sector, agriculture benefits significantly from the contributions of cooperatives and other forms of collective action.
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Regional Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan 2024–2027 for the Near East and North Africa region
2024
The new Regional Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan 2024–2027 for the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region aims to ensure its applicability across the diverse and complex contexts within the NENA region. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of the region, characterized by a spectrum of situations, the strategy incorporates a precise set of indicators that extend until 2027.
Regional action plan for sustainable soil management in the Near East and North Africa region
2024
This document was generated under the Technical Cooperation Project TCP/RAB/3802 “Capacity development for the sustainable management of soil resources in the NENA region to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” and it was formulated to address the regional and national prerequisites to raise awareness on the importance of soils in the NENA region and to conserve and manage them sustainably.
Repurposing agricultural subsidies for sustainable and resilient agrifood systems in the Near East and North Africa region-Key issues and future agenda
2024
This study analyses the current state of agricultural and food subsidies in countries of the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region and develops policy options for repurposing agricultural subsidies that would lead to a more resilient and sustainable agrifood system.
Financing the transformation of agrifood systems
2024
Hunger in the Arab region worsened amid deepening crises in 2023. The Near East and North Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition warns that the Arab region remains off-track to meet the food security and nutrition targets of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Digital innovation for promoting decent rural employment in agriculture for youth and women in the Near East and North Africa
2023
The analysis explores the current status of ICT uptake and certain age and gender-specific barriers before highlighting existing efforts to leverage digital technologies to create and facilitate access to decent employment for youth and women in agrifood systems. The paper aims to identify key entry points to ensure digital technologies are better leveraged in Near East and North Africa agrifood systems to foster decent employment in a way that is gender and age responsive.
Methodological guidance for gender-responsive water assessments
2023
Access to clean and safe water is a prerequisite to meeting basic human rights. Water is indispensable for all productive activities in the sectors of agriculture, industry and energy generation; it is also crucial to the existence of ecosystems and all life within them. However, water scarcity affects more than 40 percent of the global population and is projected to rise, with more than 1.7 billion people currently living in river basins where water use exceeds recharge.
Regulatory framework for agricultural data in the Near East and North Africa region
2023
Agricultural data and their use for better decision making and innovation are at the centre of the digital transformation of agriculture in the Near East and North Africa region. The integration of big data and technology can improve the efficiency and productivity of agriculture by enabling farmers to make more informed decisions.
To promote market orientation and inclusive transformation
2023
Small-scale family farmers are central to rural life in the NENA region, yet they make up about 70% of the region's poor due to structural challenges and limited resources. They face barriers such as low productivity, poor market access, and high input costs. Women farmers are especially disadvantaged due to persistent gender-based inequalities.
State of Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture thematic paper
2023
This report, part of the SOLAW-NENA background paper series, explores the extent of soil degradation and fertility loss in the region, analyzes the underlying drivers exerting pressure on land and soils, and reviews existing technical responses, assessment tools, and monitoring frameworks to address these critical challenges.
Climate change, migration and rural adaptation in the Near East and North Africa region
2023
Migration has always been an integral part of people’s lives and livelihoods in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region. At least some of this migration is partly driven by a deterioration in environmental conditions and an increase in the frequency of weather extremes (e.g. drought, sea level rise, extreme heat and increasingly unpredictable rainfall patterns) that have important implications for rural farming livelihoods.
Guidelines for action on food loss and waste reduction in the Near East and North Africa
2023
The Guidelines for action on food loss and waste reduction in the Near East and North Africa provide support to Member Countries to implement the Voluntary Code of Conduct for Food Loss and Waste Reduction, an international instrument designed to guide FLW policymaking and interventions at global level.