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Cairo, 22 August, 2016: Under the auspices of H.E. Dr Essam Fayed, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR), FAO launched the project entitled “Support to the Reform of the Law Governing the Agricultural Cooperatives in Egypt” in Ain Sokhna. The workshop aimed at introducing and explaining to stakeholders how...
22.08.2016
21 August 2016, Cairo.FAO/Egypt Project on “Capacity Building for Food Loss Reduction in the Near East” held a “Value Chain training workshop on Post-harvest wheat losses in Egypt” with its beneficiaries working on wheat production during the period from 15-18 August 2016 at the Agricultural Research Center premises. Twenty four...
21.08.2016
August 18st, 2016, Sana’a, Yemen: The project “Emergency provision of livelihoods inputs to internally displaced people (IDPs) and host communities in conflict affected Governorates of Yemen” funded by KSC has reached about 414,000 people (10,350 internally displaced households and 58,650 host families) from 24 conflict affected districts in Sa’ada, Taiz,...
18.08.2016
Under the auspices of the Minister of Water and Irrigation, Dr. Hazem Nasser the workshop on the Groundwater Program in the Azraq Basin has been launched. The program is being executed by the Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of...
18.08.2016
Beirut – 17 August 2016The Lebanese Minister of Agriculture, Mr Akram Chehayeb, stressed on the importance of the continuous efforts aimed at strengthening and developing reforestation process initiatives by non-governmental organizations, civil communities, and the private sector. The development of programs and the implementation of reforestation activities that include the...
17.08.2016