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Sana’a, 25 March 2020 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MAI), launched the second phase of its national desert locust control campaign throughout infested areas of Yemen. The recent influx of desert locusts poses an unprecedented threat...
25.03.2020

20 March 2020, Beirut - On the occasion of the International Forests Day 2020, FAO Lebanon disseminated a briefing note on reforestation and afforestation in Lebanon, highlighting FAO interventions and impact in this context. In this note, FAO Lebanon offered some interesting figures related to forests in Lebanon and discussed current...
20.03.2020

19 March 2020, Rome – FAO has welcomed a pledge of $1 million that will support an ongoing campaign in Eritrea to bring the numbers of Desert Locust there under control. The Desert Locust is considered the most destructive migratory plant pest in the world and a small swarm covering...
19.03.2020

Tunis: In the current special situation of COVID-19, telework has become a necessity in order to ensure continuity, from a distance, in the implementation of FAO projects in Tunisia. Mr. Philippe Ankers, Coordinator of FAO in North Africa and Representative in Tunisia, delivered this first batch of equipment, in the...
17.03.2020

Following the Council of Ministers’ decision on March 15, 2020, to declare General Mobilization to control the spread of COVID-19, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), launched on March 16, distance online learning for all students enrolled in...
16.03.2020