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8 March 2021, Cairo - As every year, International Women’s Day provides an opportunity to celebrate the progress achieved in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, reflect on setbacks and emerging challenges, and call for change about the inequalities that persist. This year’s theme, dedicated to “Women in leadership: Achieving an...
08.03.2021

Throughout history, the central role of women in society has ensured the stability, progress and long-term development of nations. Today, women in leadership positions are doing extraordinary work and have proven to be successful leaders on many levels, particularly in responding to the COVID-19 global pandemic. In Syria, the war placed...
08.03.2021

‘’Everyone in Iraq loves Al-Qimar, Iraq’s signature soft cheese cream and other local traditional dairy products, like butter, ghee (dohn Horr), laban, guishwa and varieties of white cheeses. Yet few realize that the dairy farmers who produce the milk and such products are mainly rural women, considered the most vulnerable segment...
07.03.2021

The Arab Youth Dialogue on Food Systems aims at providing an integrative and engaging platform to enable youth as key stakeholders to share perspectives, experiences, and issues on making the region’s food systems healthier, more inclusive and more sustainable, in addition to enhancing their resilience within the COVID-19 context. JOIN US You...
06.03.2021

Tunisia - March 2021 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a training course on the model of the water productivity of AquaCrop crops for the benefit of twenty engineers and professionals from the National Institute of Field Crops (INGC) and various technical departments of the...
01.03.2021