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21 September 2021, MUSCAT/Rome - Ministers and other representatives of FAO Members in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region shared today their concerns and priorities over how to respond to the COVID-19 disruptions and accelerate progress towards sustainable food systems, in a high-level roundtable during the FAO Regional Conference for...
21.09.2020

August 2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is undertaking gender-responsive water assessments to assess the relative situation of women and men in different communities regarding water access, governance, and use in order to ensure that water resources are governed in a way that is...
20.09.2020

17 September 2020, Saudi Arabia – The Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA), in partnership with the Regional Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for Near East and North Africa and FAO’s office in Saudi Arabia, on Thursday 17 September 2020 organized...
17.09.2020

16 September 2020 , Cairo – Food systems across the Near East and North Africa (NENA) need to change in order to ensure healthy diets for a growing, increasingly urban population in a context of water scarcity and advancing climate change. Such transformation should address the challenges of ensuring availability,...
16.09.2020

14 September 2020, Cairo, Egypt – FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa and the Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC) have hosted today a virtual technical regional meeting to discuss efforts to control desert locust in the region. The meeting comes amid an upsurge of...
14.09.2020