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The deadline for achieving the world’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is almost upon us. Since the MDG’s were announced, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with Rome-based sister UN agencies WFP and IFAD, has been closely monitoring the progress of countries trying to achieve...
03.06.2015

The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region faces multiple challenges in meeting its food security and nutrition requirements. The number of undernourished people in the region has more than doubled since 1990, standing now at about 33 million people according to the UN Hunger Report 2014. On the other...
28.04.2015

FAO urges enhanced monitoring of the virus in animal populations Human infections with the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) continue to be reported from the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East. Since April 2012, over 1,106 confirmed human cases, including 421 deaths, have been reported to the World Health Organization...
27.04.2015

More than $8 million needed to support farmers during crucial cropping season 15 April 2015, Rome - Amidst escalating conflict at a crucial time in the country’s cropping season, almost 11 million people in Yemen are severely food insecure and millions more are at risk of not meeting their basic food...
15.04.2015

The two organizations sign an agreement to accelerate research outputs reaching farmers’ fields. 22 March 2015, Cairo -- Rapid population growth in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) is not being matched by growth in agricultural production, making the region ever-more dependent on food imports and increasingly vulnerable to market and...
22.03.2015