15 December, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt - FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, and Egypt's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shoukry, today signed an agreement aimed at strengthening their joint collaboration to support the country's rural women and youth.

As they endorsed th...

15 December 2019, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today met with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, on the margins of the World Youth Forum.

The President expressed appreciation for the Director-General's support to and participation in the ...

FAO Director-General speaks at World Youth Forum

16 December 2019, Cairo, Egypt - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held a consultation workshop to present and discuss a “Code of Conduct” for guiding the public sector in taking action to reduce food loss and waste (FLW). The workshop gathered ...

Tunis 30 December 2019

In collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Hydraulic Resources and Fisheries, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concluded a Program for training of trainers in Solar Powered Irrigation Systems as part of the...

The Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture and FAO launch the year under the theme "protecting plants, protecting life"

Amman - January 8, 2020 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) to provide capacity building and technical support for the Integrated Agri-Aquaculture (IAA) farming systems in water-strapped Jordan.
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FAO Syria to launch entrepreneurship-training programme to modernize farmers’ attitudes

FAO points to the need to turn food systems into accelerators of the Sustainable Development Goals

Next stop: Regional Conference for the Near East in Oman

Bari, 29 January 2020 – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has organized in collaboration with CIHEAM-Bari a pre-conference meeting in Bari, Italy to promote the plan to establish a regional trust fund that will support strategic programme to face tr...

Amman - February 10, 2020 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) launched Monday a pioneering project to provide capacity building and technical support for the Integrated Agri-Aquaculture (IAA) farming systems in Jordan.

Damascus - 24 February 2020: One of the biggest challenges facing agriculture in the Syrian Arab Republic is the need for comprehensive programmes and projects to help recovery across the sector, after almost ten years of crisis. There has been major physical damage caused by ...

Staff trained with the required skills and knowledge to be more effective in various agricultural sectors, boosting productivity

February 2020 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the national governmental organizations managing water resources in the participating countries, organized and successfu...

Sana’a, March 7, 2020-The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) participated in the opening ceremony of the refresher training program organized by Yemen’s University of Sana'a through the College of Veterinary Medicine. The training focuses on field ve...

The project is mainstreaming the role of women in peacebuilding through a natural resources management approach

In early February 2020, FAO distributed 1 500 head of livestock (mostly goats and sheep) to families in Haifan district of Taiz governorate in Yemen as a means of improving their ability to produce food for household consumption and earn extra income. 

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March 2020, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with Stockholm Environment Institute and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, organized and successfully completed the second Nexus Dialogue workshop for 28 participants in Souss Mass...

Tunis: In the current special situation of COVID-19, telework has become a necessity in order to ensure continuity, from a distance, in the implementation of FAO projects in Tunisia. Mr. Philippe Ankers, Coordinator of FAO in North Africa and Representative in Tunisia, deliver...