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Schools occupy a very important place in awareness raising activities cause of the multiplier effects students can create in conveying specific messages to the communities they live in. It is for this reason that FAO Cairo country office regularly promotes school visits within its premises. Yesterday was the...
17.12.2012

A unified approach to managing landscapes to achieve food security while protecting the world’s natural resources could make it on to the U.N. climate change agenda by 2015, in time to be incorporated into the 2020 emissions reduction agreement, said Tony La Viña, a negotiator for the...
08.12.2012

The recent outbreaks of an atypical strain of FMD (SAT2), with cases confirmed in Egypt, Libya, Gaza Strip and Bahrain last April have affected and are still affecting the livelihood of many smallholders in the Near East and North Africa region where livestock sector contributes up to 60% of agricultural...
03.12.2012

Qatar, in its effort to achieve food security, has taken many steps, and as a result of its “good food security strategy” the country is going to change the situation in the years to come, a senior official of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) told...
29.11.2012

More than 50% of the food consumed in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) is imported, making it the largest food importing region in the world. Increasing rates of population growth, combined with severe scarcity of water and land resources might imply that in the future this...
27.11.2012