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14 October 2020, Cairo - Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid & Relief Centre (KSrelief) has contributed $5 million to FAO’s efforts in support of people facing severe food insecurity and malnutrition in Yemen especially after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yemen remains the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Economic shocks,...
14.10.2020

September 2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) is undertaking Rapid Water Accounting (RWA) – the first cycle of a water accounting process. Together, they engage local stakeholders in a co-assessment of the critical...
01.10.2020

30 September 2020, Cairo, Egypt – On Wednesday 30 September, the Arab Women Organization (AWO) announced, at its headquarters in Egypt, the names of the winners in the competition “Designing the Best Mobile Application for Empowering Rural Women in the Arab Region” which was launched by the organization in cooperation...
30.09.2020

September 2020, Daraa, Syria - Among the harshest armed clashes in 2012 were those in Daraa governorate in the south of Syria, which forced thousands of rural families to flee to other governorates or to neighbouring Jordan or Lebanon. The latter route was eventually taken by Melly Rawashdeh, a 40-year-old...
29.09.2020

29 September 2020, Sana’a - After torrential floods affected much of Yemen, FAO and local partners are committed to rehabilitating critical water infrastructure to ensure that rural farmers’ livelihoods are secured. The activity is part of the project Enhance Households and Community Resilience in Yemen, funded by the European Union. The...
29.09.2020