2 June 2023, Saudi Arabia - The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have joined forces to enhance the productivity of millet and sesame crops in Saudi Arabia.

April 13-14 2022, Cairo, Egypt – The effects of climate change on food security and agriculture sectors across the NENA region have become apparent over the past few years, exacerbated by conflict, COVID-19 and global food crises. Taking the opportunity of its leadership as ho...

24 January 2019, Sanaa -- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) celebrates 40 years in Yemen during a workshop to look back at the main highlights of its 2018 programme, including the Emergency Livelihoods Response Plan (ELRP), and to discuss the pi...

25 January 2022 Cairo, The steering committee of the Water Efficiency, Productivity and Sustainability (WEPS-NENA) project in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region met from the 23^rd to 25^th January in Cairo, Egypt. The meeting gathered the national...

28 March 2022 – Forests and trees are fundamental to tackling climate change worldwide. Halting deforestation and reducing forest and land degradation are among the best nature-based solutions to the climate crisis.  

Understanding and enhancing the poten...

On Tuesday, February 25, 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Lebanon, in collaboration with the Ministry of Water and Energy and the North Lebanon Water Establishment, launched the project “Rehabilitation and waste management of El-Bared Canal ...

FAO supports the improvement of social protection for men and women active in the fishing sector in Tunisia

Spread, socio-economic Impacts, actions, and measures adopted to avoid or counteract its entry, Establishment, and dissemination

22 September 2022 – FAO headquarters, with support from the Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa, organized a virtual discussion with young parliamentarians to explore how young men and women can advocate for agrifood system transformation in their communities an...

Libya, 8-11 October 2023: A training workshop is organized by FAO-Libya and hosted by The Agricultural Research Centre (ARC) in Al-Bayda (Eastern of Libya). This activity has the support of the FAO subregional office for North Africa, FAO Office of Emergencies and Resilience (OER), FAO Geospat...

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 enhancing water use efficiency and prod...

A new Country Programming Framework (CPP) for 2022 – 2025 has just been officially signed between the FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries. This document represents the reference frame that defines the work of FAO in Tunisia. Over the years, its formulation has gr...

June 23, 2020

The agricultural sector of Jordan is at a turning point. The current context, characterized by slow-onset climate change impact and sudden-onset shocks, such as the Covid-19 related lockdown, is calling for a new revolution of the food systems. Jordan famers, desp...

The Government of the Sultanate of Oman recognizes the vital role of agricultural extension and related support services and thus constantly strives to reinvent and align it to the needs of the market. In this context, the “Strengthening Extension and Support services system” project was launc...

28 March, 2019 – Tunis/ Cairo:

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has successfully completed training workshops on “developing sustainable food systems and value chains in the Near East and North Africa”. The two workshops held in Cairo (10-14 March) an...

3 May 2023, Mauritania – FAO recently launched Mauritania’s first Farmer Observatory in partnership with innovation incubator HADINA RIMTIC, serving the Rosso region of Mauritania. Hosted by Institut Supérieur d'Enseignement Technologique de Rosso (ISET), the Observatory acts ...

This training, delivered within the framework of the Global FMD Control Strategy by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is hosted on the FAO Virtual Learning Centers (VLC) platform to enhance FMD control capacity in endemic regions and accelerate country progress on the Progressive Control Pathway for FMD (PCP-FMD) by 2027.

Research by FAO and IOM casts light on obstacles faced in the aftermath of conflict

FAO led events and hosted the Food and Agriculture Pavilion with CGIAR and the Rockefeller Foundation at the 2-week UN Climate Conference in Sharm-el Sheikh

Increased support for the joint Yemen Food Security Response and Resilience Project as acute food insecurity intensifies