Cairo, 25 November 2020 – Since the outbreak of COVID-19, emerging data and reports have shown that all forms of violence against ...

13 January 2021, Tehran - FAO provides Iranian farmers with learning opportunities on handling low water productivity challenges, monitoring local water resources, and adopting an optimal cropping pattern, to increase farm-household income and reduce water withdrawal.

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15 December 2019, Amman – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Jordan convened a two day workshop (Second Nexus Dialogue: Hands-on nexus analysis in Jordan) under the 3rd Output NEXUS- Assessing water sustainability using a Water-Food-Energy-Cli...

27 March 2023, Khartoum - A recently released special report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2022/23 Crops and Food Supply Assessment Mission (CFSAM) has revealed significant improvements in cereal production in the Sudan. The mission was c...

11 August 2020, Cairo - FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for the Near East and North Africa Abdessalam Ould Ahmed today presented the Seniority Award Medal to Osama Salah El Din, who completed twenty-five years of uninterrupted service with the Organi...

31 August2021, Beirut - Dramatic changes are taking place in farming worldwide as a result of globalization, liberalization, and rapid urbanization. Farmers are intensifying existing patterns of production and diversifying their farm enterprises in an attempt to improve t...

14 October 2018, Cairo -- At the opening session of the Cairo Water Week (CWW), H.E. Mohamed Abdel Aty, the Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation praised the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for its support to Egypt in the use of modern technology and...

Amman, October 3, 2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Jordan, in cooperation with World Food Program (WFP), and with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture, encourage vulnerable farmers, smallholders and the small family-based agri-food enterprises f...

28 selected National women trained to fully utilize the FAO Open Access Platform on Water Productivity (WaPOR)

September 2021 – Ensuring sustainable and reliable allocation of water while protecting water quality and sustainability has become increasingly complex and problematic in many regions of the world and in particular the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region. To support this, it is important...

29 March 2022 –  Agriculture is one of the sectors most affected by climate change, but as a recent FAO report ‘Regional analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions in the Near East and North Africa

The FAO Representative in Morocco and her team have released a video statement raising awareness of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence towards women and girls on November 25, 2020.

The office has posted online a spot with strong messages calling for a firm stand on vi...

Towards the Digitization of Public Services and Better Connectivity between National and International Systems

22 February 2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Area (ICARDA) under the regional project “Water Efficiency, Productivity and Sustainability in the NENA region” by enh...

The presentations made by FAO, UNCCD, UNEP and World Bank, highlighted the state of land degradation and impacts, and responses to land degradation.

13 June 2023, Tunis – Within the framework of the FAO Regional Initiative on Water Scarcity (WSI), and FAO-UMA programme 2020-2023, the FAO sub-regional office for North Africa, in collaboration with th...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute, IHE-Delft, The World Bank, the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI), and EU Water STARS project, have implemented a session at the fourth Cairo Wat...

FAO Director-General: Innovation and experience-sharing across regions key to transforming agri-food systems

25 August, Gabarone, Botswana – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has provided support and funding for the attendance of several national representatives from across the region in the UNFCCC National Adaptation...

20 October 2022_The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized an exchange field visit which aimed to increase the participants’ capacity and knowledge about the in-situ water harvesting techniques regarding its design, construction, data monitoring and data collec...