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The Near East and North Africa region loses and wastes a significant amount of food, estimated at up to 250 kg per person every year. This wastage of food reduces food availability, aggravates water scarcity, adversely impacts the environment, and increases the need for overseas food imports in an already...

Good Agricultural Practices are a set of principles, regulations and technical guidelines that can be applied to production, processing and the transportation of food to improve the safety of the food. They address human health care, environmental protection and improvement of working conditions and the livelihoods of families within the sector. 40 farmers of the...

With fresh water availability set to drop by 50 percent by the year 2050, the Near East and North Africa (NENA) may be facing the most severe intensification of water shortage in history. Agriculture, which uses the 85 percent of the NENA total freshwater, will most likely suffer the bulk of...

What are the water requirements required to sustainably increase agricultural productivity?  What are the financial costs to enhancing food security under water scarcity conditions? These are some of the fundamental questions needing answers in the NENA region today. The Moroccan government, with the support of FAO, has carried out the first...

FAO hosted the first Steering Committee to discuss the implementation of the Near East and North Africa Plan of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resource for Agriculture. The Treaty NENA Action Plan addresses water, plant genetic resources and food security in the region and has a Benefit-Sharing Fund (BSF) that invests...