FAO, CIHEAM Bari High-Level Meeting calls for a five-year action plan to manage Transboundary Plant Pests and Diseases in the region

Ministers of Agriculture and High-level officials to discuss weaknesses in plant protection systems

Amman, 20 June 2023 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in cooperation with the National Center for Security and Crisis Management (NCSCM), launched a training course to build the capacity building of twenty five selected employees from the Nat...

FAO urgently requires $95.4 million to scale up response to save lives, enable access to food and protect vital livelihoods

18/06/2023, Qassim, Saudi Arabia - Empowering women in combating desertification and drought is a critical call for sustainable land management and restoration and directly affects the productive capacity of the ecosystems. Desertification and drought are the major global chal...

AbdulHakim Elwaer, Assistant Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Regional Representative for the Near East and North Africa....

During his visit to the United Arab Emirates, the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, along with a number of FAO officials, held a meeting today with His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and President-Designate of COP28 and his se...

13 June 2023 - The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, successfully concluded a one-day working visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as part of preparations for the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (#COP28UAE) ...

Baghdad, 8th of June 2023 – The Government of Canada, represented by the Embassy of Canada to Iraq, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Iraq have signed a four-year CAN$ 10M (USD 7.3 million) agreement.

The funds are planned to impl...

Minya, Egypt – June 4, 2023 - Experts from the Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and government officials from 12 Arab countries concluded the activities of the first regional forum on the fu...

Launch of the second edition of the Food Policy Monitoring Bulletin, 1st quarter 2023

Regional workshop in Amman (Jordan) to strengthen technical capacities for the Global Forest Resources Assessment

Menia, May 28, 2023- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Regional Office for the Near East organizes a regional forum on “The Future of Farmers' Field schools” for Sustainable Agrifood Systems in the Near East and North Africa in Minya, Egypt. Th...

25 May 2023, ADEN – The food security situation in Yemen’s districts under the control of the Government of Yemen (GoY) slightly improved during the first five months of this year, while acute malnutrition increased, compared to the same period in 2022. However, the outlook fo...

34.7% of the Arab region is experiencing moderate or severe food insecurity

The disease threatens the world's most traded fruit, Lebanon’s strategic crop

Muscat, May 17, 2023 - The Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Sultanate of Oman, with the General Directorate of Agricultural and Animal Research represented by the Agricultural Research Department in North Al Batinah G...

16 May 2023, Amman, Jordan – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), launched today a project to enhance food security and livelihoods of vulnerable rural women communities in Jordan throughthe “...

13 May 2023 – The first high-level Quadripartite regional meeting to accelerate implementation of One Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region took place on 8–11 May 2023 in Muscat, Oman. The 4-day meeting of the Quadripartite, comprising the Food and Agriculture Organizatio...

Kuwait, 08 May 2023- Within the framework of the regional programme for Red Palm Weevil(RPW) management in the Near East and North Africa region, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in cooperation with the Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs ...