Tunisia - March 2021 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a training course on the model of the water productivity of AquaCrop crops for the benefit of twenty engineers and professionals from the National Institute of Field Crops (INGC) a...

9 March 2021, 11:00-12:30 pm (Beirut time, GMT +2)

Words of hope from Dhuhaa Najm Shith -- one of the many rural women dairy producers struggling to recover from conflict in Iraq

Throughout history, the central role of women in society has ensured the stability, progress and long-term development of nations. Today, women in leadership positions are doing extraordinary work and have proven to be successful leaders on many levels, particularly in responding to the COVID-...

8 March 2021, Cairo - As every year, International Women’s Day provides an opportunity to celebrate the progress achieved in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, reflect on setbacks and emerging challenges, and call for change about the inequalities that persist....

Dr QU Dongyu - 13 March 2021

Project to build resilience to cope with climate change in Jordan through improved water use efficiency in the agriculture sector

The assets are expected to increase irrigation water for 27 351 households in targeted districts and increase their crop production.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education, is implementing a Regional Capacity Building for Water Accounting (CB4WA) for the Water Efficiency, productivity and Sustainability regional project (WEPS-NENA) sin...

UMA and FAO launch the Maghreb Non-Conventional Water Initiative (IMENCO) A new chapter in North African cooperation to deal with the scarcity of water.

Muscat, 22 March 2021 - 

The World Water Day (WWD) celebrates water and raises awareness on the importance of valuing water and also taking action to tackle the global water crisis.  A core ...

H.E Minister of Agriculture Abbas Mortada and FAO Representative in Lebanon Maurice Saade, in the presence of Ambassador of Japan to Lebanon H.E. OKUBO Takeshi signed today a new project agreemen...

5 April 2021, Tanta, Egypt - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) works with the Egyptian government represented by the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI), and Ministry of Agriculture and Land...

The intervention is expected to safeguard livelihoods, enhance resilience of affected communities and promote early recovery

Farmer Field Schools (FFS) have been used as a way to enhance local farming techniques through targeted capacity development activities delivered in the form of on-the-job training to Palestinian farmers. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under the regional pro...

Cairo and Manama, April 28th, 2021- FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa (FAO) together with the United Nations Environment Programme’s Regional Office for West Asia (UNEP) convened a virtual dialogue on “Preventing Food Waste: Innovations and Solutions in th...

FAO and EU support to Ninawa farmers to mitigate drought

The information system is expected to contribute to more informed and timely decision-making on food security issues

A mission of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) visited Morocco to follow the implementation of the activities of the regional project –“Implementation of the 2030 Agenda on Water Efficienc...

Agriculture in Lebanon is by far the largest consumer of freshwater resources, with 61 percent of total water consumption, followed by 30 percent for municipal use and nine percent for industrial use. With the deteriorating quality of surface water and the lack of adequate water networks, farm...