Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol visits Egypt on her first official visit to the Near East and North Africa region
05/10/2022
05 October 2022, Cairo –The FAO Deputy Director-General recently completed a four-day visit to Egypt aimed at boosting collaboration between the Organization and the most populous Arab country; and attending a regional workshop on Fall Armyworm control that gathered representa...
FAO hosts the final steering committee for the Water Efficiency, Productivity and Sustainability project for the NENA region.
08/12/2022
29 November 2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization organized the final regional steering committee for the Water Efficiency, Productivity and Sustainability (WEPS-NENA) project for the Near East and North Africa region in Cairo, Egypt in hybrid mode. The meeting aimed to...
FAO Marks Arbor Day with Tree Planting Event
22/01/2023
22 January, 2023 – Amman –The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) celebrated Arbor Day, which falls on the 15th of January, with the planting trees planting activity in contribution to the afforestation efforts and v...
Towards efficient monitoring, evaluation, and rationalization of water use in the agricultural sector in Libya
31/01/2023
Regional workshop on sustainable, inclusive management of pastoral ecosystems and their socio-economic potential
15/12/2022
15 December 2022, Cairo, Egypt – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation’s (FAO) Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa (NENA) has organized a regional workshop on sustainable and inclusive management of pastoral ecosystems and their socio-econom...
Driving innovation in the Palestinian beekeeping industry through beeswax recycling
31/08/2021
In July 2017, 15 beekeepers in Jenin, West Bank, aspiring to harness the untapped potential of beekeeping came together to create a support system known as Al Hanoun Honey Cooperative. Unbeknownst to much of the world, numbers from 2020 have placed Palestine as a viable contender in the market...
FAO, ICARDA establish small-scale agro-silvo-pastoral test site in Jordan to raise awareness, promote ecosystem services enhancement
11/09/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Area (ICARDA), NGO Watershed and Development Initiative (WADI) for Sustainable Ecosystems Development and the local community, and a local Community Based...
Potato farmers in Baalbek shifting to a more environmentally sustainable and economically feasible approach to growing potatoes
21/09/2021
The rapidly deteriorating economic and financial crisis seriously affects agriculture in Lebanon. As most agricultural inputs (agro-chemicals, seeds, animal feed, vaccines and other veterinary supplies, etc.) are imported, the productive capacities of the farmers have been particularly affecte...
FAO promotes concrete solutions for the development of resilient agro-aquacultural food systems in desert and arid environments
16/10/2022
Tunis, October 13-15, 2022: Experts from Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, and Tunisia participate in the work of developing a comprehensive framework program, based on the market-based systemic approach, to promote and support the development of resilient agri...
40 farmers and extension agents attend an avocado Farmer Field School workshop in Qalqilya, Palestine
05/06/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a Farmer Field School (FFS) workshop on the fifth of June 2022 in Qalqilya, Palestine with the main objective of presenting the results of the two avocado FFS’s implemented in Falamya and Qalqilya, Palestine. The works...
Story : 70 experts from the NENA region learn to calibrate and validate the Aquacrop model for new crops
09/09/2021
July 2021 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the University of Cordoba (UCO) have implemented an online training to 70 participants with the overall aim of calibrating and validating the process of the AquaCrop model for the participants con...
AgriNation Startup Cup selects four finalist teams
24/10/2022
The AgriNation Startup Cup final event took place on October 20th, as part of the 2022 World Food Forum hosted in hybrid format in FAO Headquarters in Rome. Ten startups from across the region, showcased their ideas and competed for a spot in the 2023 Global Agripreneurs Summit (GAS).
T...
Sustainable water management is a key to ending hunger and poverty
22/03/2019
22 March 2019, Beirut – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) actively participated in a special event organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and aimed at commemorating the World Water Day.
T...
Lebanon Hosts the Sixth Mediterranean Forest Week
04/04/2019
FAO shares on-going progress in water resources management with stakeholders
25/02/2020
Within the project “Improved Water Resources Monitoring System/Integrated Water Resources Management at regional level in Lebanon” funded by the Swiss Embassy, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW) and t...
Ministry of Agriculture and FAO launch distance learning for students in the agricultural technical schools
16/03/2020
Following the Council of Ministers’ decision on March 15, 2020, to declare General Mobilization to control the spread of COVID-19, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), launched on March 16, distance online l...
While peace awaits, do not let crises compromise the way forward
14/01/2021
Training facilitators to guide farmers in Farm Business Schools all over Lebanon
28/09/2021
Over a period of two weeks, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Lebanon, through a project funded by the European Union, trained facilitators on the Farm Business School (FBS) approach.
The facilitators are now able to guide farmers from all over Lebanon...
Virtual meeting on advancing advisory services for small-scale producers , family farmers
28/11/2021
28 November 2021, Amman, Jordan – Under the framework of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Priority on Rural Transformation, FAO, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) in Jordan, organized a ...
FAO and MoA sign an agreement focusing on the transformation of food systems in the Mediterranean region
22/01/2023
Amman, Jordan – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative in Jordan, Eng.Nabil Assaf, H.E Minister of Agriculture Eng. Khaled Hnaifat and with the presence of Her Royal Highness Princess Basma bint Ali, the founder of the Royal Botanic Garden and FAO Regional ...