CEOs and Chairmen from global and regional stakeholders seeking to build a shared vision about challenges facing the region

July 2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Algeria organized the second Farmer Field School (FFS) training for 30 facilitators from the Ministries of Water Resources and Agriculture and Rural Development, with the objective of improving the facilitators kn...

Iraq hosts the upcoming Near East Regional Conference in 2022 to help countries in the region accelerate the new FAO strategic framework

Damascus 26 July 2021: A two-year capacity building programme has reached its final stage announcing Syria as a ready to implement projects to adapt to and mitigate climate change in several sectors, mainly agriculture, natural resources, environmental and energy sectors. Than...

Cairo, 1 August 2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and The Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS) met today in Cairo. Abdul Hakim El Waer, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for the Near East and North Africa...

Plant health experts meet to protect plants from harmful pests in the Near East and North Africa

3 August 2021-- A high level delegation from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) headed by FAO Representative Babagana Ahmadu and the Canadian Ambassador to Sudan Adrian Norfolk visited the Blue Nile and Sinnar States to launch the new FAO project under the theme ‘’Bu...

FAO completes large-scale livestock vaccination and treatment campaign to shield the livelihoods of over 36 000 livestock-dependent households.

Under FAO Support and Sponsorship: Training Course for Date Palm Producers in Northern State Gets Held

Amman - 11 August 2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held this morning, in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture, a workshop to discuss the results of the study "The Status of Olive mills in Jordan", which will contribute to identif...

Sudan lends Ethiopia through the support of FAO Sudan 50,000 metric liters of Malathion Pesticide to Control the Desert Locust Infestations

25 August 2021, Amman— The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the National Agricultural Research Center (NARC) in Jordan have signed a Letter of Agreement to build capacity to use the Ma’ Al Muzare’ – NARC mobile application through a training of trainers modalit...

Nineveh, Iraq, 26/08/2021- For the purpose to complement the humanitarian efforts carried out by the United Nations in Nineveh Governorate, and within the framework of supporting income generation for returning families and local communities, the Food and Agriculture Orga...

29 August, 2021, Amman - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations completed the first day of the Farmer Field School (FFS) training on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for Fall Armyworm (FAW).

This training falls within the regional activities of “Emergenc...

Amman (5 September2021) –The National Committee for Food Security, supported by the Ministry of Agriculture in cooperation with United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme (WFP), successfully concluded a 2-day workshop to discuss and endorse the N...

Baghdad, 9 September 2021 - His Excellency the Minister of Agriculture Mr. Muhammad Karim Al- Khafaji honored Dr Salah El-hajj Hassan FAO Representative in Iraq and his team of experts in appreciation of their distinguished and o...

Amman – 13 September, 2021 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding from the European Union through its Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis (the Madad Fund), and in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture launches an advanced Tra...

Efforts critical to safeguarding agriculture-based livelihoods as potential locust upsurge threatens to worsen an already precarious food security situation

Tunisia _September 2021_ FAO in Tunisia has supported the Ministry of Agriculture, Hydraulic Resources and Fisheries in setting up a multidisciplinary team specializing in water accounting. This national team will be responsible for carrying out the water accounting exercise in a sub-basin of ...

Amman - October 3, 2021 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched today a training on the utilization of GIS for improving forest fires prevention, early detection, control and documentation.

This training falls within the activities of “Enhancing ...