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Background: In the context of COVID-19 outbreak, FAO RNE is organizing this Zoominar on Farmer organizations’ role in promoting innovation to increase food security, and sustainable rural development.  Since the early spread of COVID-19, FAO underscored the crucial role of farmer organizations in increasing resilience and rethinking priorities of food security policies to keep food supply...

                                  Background: The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues to spread throughout the Near East and North Africa (NENA) – Arab States region. The pandemic will have huge impacts on public health and represents already an unprecedented shock to economies, food systems and labour markets globally and in the NENA region, affecting rural poverty...

                        Event days: Day1 (1st July 2020 from 11:00 to 13:00 CLT): Day 2 (2nd  July 2020 from 11:00 to 13:00 CLT): Day 3 (15th  July2020 from 11:00 to 13:00 CLT): Day 4 (23rd  July 2020 from 11:00 to 13:00 CLT): Background The FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa is organizing a virtual Regional Consultative Technical Meeting,...

  18 June 2020 @14:00 – 15:30 (GMT +2) Background: The private sector leads innovation in the upstream and downstream sides of production as main player taking up research and development outcomes to concrete pilots and then scaling them up to products and services aiming to increase the efficiency and resilience of agri-food...

04 June 2020 @ 14:00 – 15:30 (GMT +2) Background: Food loss and waste (FLW) is a reflection of the inefficiency, unsustainability and inequality of contemporary food systems. In the Near East and North Africa, prior to COVID-19, food systems needed transformation to reach SDGs by 2030 and sustainably deliver safe, nutritious...