FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa

14/04/2022

14 April, 2022 Amman, Jordan  – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative in Jordan, Eng. Nabil Assaf, H.E Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Mr. Nasser Shraideh, H.E Minister of water and Irrigation Eng. Mohammad Al Najjar, H.E Minister o...

19/04/2022

Cairo, 19 April – Food loss and waste (FLW) are a manifestation of poorly functioning agrifood systems. They have negative impacts on the economy, food security, nutrition, and the environment. Recent estimates by FAO

20/04/2022

After 37 sessions organized on water accounting under the project "Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Water Efficiency/Productivity and Water Sustainability in the NENA Countries", the Water Accounting in Use webinar series will continue in 2022. Building on what has been presented, the new sess...

26/04/2022

April 2022, Ninewa, Iraq – The new FAO Strategic Framework is designed around ‘four betters’: Better Production, Better Nutrition, Better Environment and Better Life. Following the announcement of thes...

27/04/2022

27 March 2022, Palestine – Reducing a person’s individual water footprint, combating collective and individual water misuse, overuse, and waste and is essential everywhere. Therefore, #EveryDropCounts - Water is life. Water is food. Water is you...

27/04/2022
The role includes championing the sustainable use of terrestrial and marine ecosystems and combatting climate change
08/05/2022

8 May 2022, Amman, Jordan - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Jordanian Armed Forces launched today the assessment mission that will use FAO’s Surveillance Evaluation Tool (...

09/05/2022

Egypt, 9-12 May 2022 Within ongoing cooperation between the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation in the Arab Republic of Egypt, FAO organized an advanced training program on producing biopesticides and the mass produ...

12/05/2022

Amman, Jordan – The Government of Italy and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), launched today a project to increase the resilience of the Jordanian vulnerable communities throughthe “Sus...

13/05/2022

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with IHE Delft Water Education Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft) have implemented a Regional Water Accounting training to 60 practitioners from the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region from the 11th ...

15/05/2022
FAO’s ADG & Regional Representative for NENA meets farmers and stakeholders to discuss opportunities
17/05/2022

17 May 2022, Palestine – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority (EQA) signed today a project agreement to boost climate-resilient agricultural practices in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The thr...

17/05/2022

Within the framework of the project "Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Water Efficiency/ Productivity and Water Sustainability in the NENA Countries" ​​implemented by FAO and funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), eight experts from FAO and IHE-Delft were trained on a se...

17/05/2022

Water accounting has been a topic of interest for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the last 20 years. Water accounting is being used to (i) set sustainable limits of consumption; (ii) make the best use of every drop of water, including non-conventional wate...

19/05/2022

FAO-Saudi Arabia in collaboration with the Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture and the Al-Baha Beekeeper’s Association celebrated the 2022 World Bee Day” event in line with this year's World Bee Day theme “Bee engaged: Celebrating the diversity of bees and beekeeping systems” ...

27/05/2022

27 May, Valenzano, Italy – On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) Bari Foundation, an international ceremony and the naming of CIHEAM Bari Campus by 𝗖�...

30/05/2022

30 May 2022 - Water scarcity is a critical challenge in countries and regions with arid and semi-arid conditions and fast-growing water demands. This is mostly the case in all of the countries across the Near East and North Africa (NENA) Region, where food dem...

30/05/2022

30 May 2022, Rabat, Morocco – The Food and Agriculture Organization Regional office for Near East and North Africa (FAORNE), in collaboration with the International Trade Center (ITC), inaugurated a regional training on “Facilitation Trade for Food Security”, in Rabat, Kingdom...

30/05/2022

Iraq, Rabea, 30 May 2022 – The rehabilitated North Al-Jazeera irrigation project was officially inaugurated yesterday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Ministries of Water Resources, of Agric...

31/05/2022

31 May 2022, Saudi Arabia – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations participated in the International Exhibition and Forum for Afforestation Techniques held at the Riyadh International Center, organized by the Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and ...