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The project objective of the FAO Monitoring and Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Mitigation Potential in Agriculture (MAGHG) is to support developing countries in assessing and reporting their GHG emissions from agriculture and to enhance global knowledge base on GHG emissions and mitigation potentials within the agriculture sectors. ...

The regional workshop on ‘Strengthening capacity to respond to disease emergencies in the Middle East’’ was jointly organized by FAO regional office for Near East and North Africa and the FAO Crisis Management Centre for Animal Health (CMC-AH) in collaboration with the FAO office in Amman, Jordan. The workshop took...

A Desert Locust adult can consume roughly its own weight per day , i.e. about two grams, in fresh crops. A 1 km2 size swarm contains about 40 million locusts, which can, therefore, eat the same amount of food in a day as about 35,000 people, 20 camels or 6...

Two varieties of bee are responsible for honey production in the UAE; the most popular is Apis mellifera, the common honey bee, and Apis florea, and the the Asiatic honey bee. The bees can be found mainly in the mountainous areas of...

The 2011 edition of FAO’s key publication, The State of Food and Agriculture entitled Women in agriculture: closing the gender gap for development as well as the World Bank’s World Development Report of 2012 on Gender Equality and Development underline and provide ample evidence that women make crucial contributions in...