The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Life Vision have started its all women Farmer Field School (FFS) activities on sugar beets in Beni Ebeid and Mansheit ElNasr villages in Minya governorate, Egypt. The...

Jihad Abdel Kader, a farmer from the village of Mresti in Mount Lebanon strived to improve his agricultural products to meet market demand and make more profit. He joined the Farm Business School (FBS) in his village together with a group of “like-minded farmers” to gain new s...

Ten years of crisis and COVID-19 pandemic have affected the farmers’ priorities in the Syrian Arab Republic, where they seek opportunities to produce food for their own consumption, and then find ways to promote their products in the surrounding markets. However; even cultivating their small l...

Yousef Assi, a farmer from Al Mashare village in the Northern Jordan Valley, strived to improve his agricultural products to meet market demand and make more profit. He joined the Farmer Field School (FFS) with other farmers to learn about the usage of pesticides and fertilizers, as well as ne...

The vast majority of Omani farmers are small-scale family farmers and they play an important role in achieving food security and improving livelihoods.

However, they face a number of barriers, including high transaction costs and access to productive services and assets, such as financi...

Tucked away 70 km’s from Muscat’s city center in the coastal city of Barka, lies 10 acres of agricultural land appropriately called “Pairidaeza” (Paradise in the Persian language). What separates this particular stretch of land from the others, is that Pariridaeza is Oman’s first and only cert...

23 November 2020, Rome/Sudan – FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme has contributed 1.5 Million USD to a south-south cooperation project (SSC project) aimed at enhancing production, productivity and competitiveness of the crops and livestock sectors in Sudan. Agricultur...

During 23-24 November, the regional office of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation in Near East and North Africa will host regional virtual training workshop on mass production of natural enemies against Fall Armyworm. Experts from the International Centre of Insect Physiolog...

Joint IFAD-FAO Press Release

25 November 2020, Amman – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Jordan (FAO) organized a workshop focusing on the major disasters facing the agricultural sector and food security. The workshop was under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Ali bi...

“The Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nation (FAO) Subregional Office for the Gulf Cooperation Council and Yemen (SNG) organized a regional virtual workshop for the Near East countries to assist FAO in developing and information system and a gl

Al Mashare’ area, in the northern Jordan Valley, is considered as one of the poorest areas in the country. As a follow up to the Royal Court initiatives regarding the preparation of an integrated development plan for the area, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) a...

This year FAO RNE marked its participation in the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign through several raising awareness initiatives. Thanks to one of them, launched by the RNE Gender Specialists, colleagues from the regional and country offices literally...

Abu Dhabi, 14 December – The FAO Subregional Office for the Gulf Cooperation Council States and Yemen (SNG), in collaboration with the Food and Water Security Office in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office in the UAE, organized a...

Almost 60 000 people will benefit from renovated and newly built fishery industry facilities in Yemen’s Dhubab and Al Mokha districts.

Beita Village, Nablus, the West Bank

A new report by FAO and IFPR studies the relation between food policies and overweight and obesity trends

Cairo, Egypt - Ninety irrigation and farming engineers from three Egyptian governorates benefited from the first phase of a training on crop mapping using remote sensing under the project "Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Water Efficiency/Productivity & Water Sustainabilit...