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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday, 8 July briefed diplomats in Amman on the findings of a recently conducted Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission to Syria. The presentations highlighted the effects of the conflict on crop...

 EBRD and FAO are organizing a forum focused on responsible private sector investment and improved public-private policy dialogue in the Egyptian agriculture sector. The forum will explore ways to unleash Egypt’s agricultural potential by increasing private sector investments in food production, improving agrifood trade logistics, promoting exports and addressing import...

Sound policies for food security and agricultural water management are critical for national economies and particularly for dryland areas, where water resources are already scarce, and declining rapidly. The development of such...

The Subregional Office for North Africa in Tunis organized in collaboration with the Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR) a training workshop June 11 to 13, 2013 and that, in the context of strengthening building teams of FAO and its partners for a Gender-responsive programming. The...

The Near East and North Africa region (NENA) covers 19 countries where water scarcity is one of the major challenges. This constraint is causing the degradation of important irrigated areas and limiting the increase of food production to cope with population increase.   Water demand management is the most suitable approach to...