Ministerial declaration adopted by FAO Regional Conference endorses FAO’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme and Hand-in-Hand Initiative to help transform food systems

September 22, 2020 - A combination of climate change, population pressure, pollution and use of inappropriate cropping patterns and farming techniques has been depleting the aquifer of the Gaza Strip, threatening food production and farmers’ incomes.

To address these ch...

FAO Director-General highlights COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme and calls for enabling multi-sectoral policies, innovation, well targeted investments, and vital agricultural activity

Ministers and other representatives recognize several challenges and present possible solutions facing NENA countries on food and agriculture

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 wat...

(NERC 35) for 2020: “Transforming Food Systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”

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...

Multiple Cities, 29 July 2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing, today, a webinar for another imminent global threat to plant health and crop production in Xylella fastidiosa (Xf), now on the doorsteps of the Near East and North ...

27 July 2020, Cairo, Egypt – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), jointly with the League of Arab States (LAS) and in partnership with Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), has hosted today a workshop to discuss the

Concluding session of the Regional Consultative Technical Meeting

When agricultural heritage helps crops adapt to drought and feeds communities despite the odds

Ramli agricultural systems in the lagoons of Ghar El Melh and hanging gardens of Djebba El Olia provide vital ecosystem services and traditional knowledge preservation

12 June 2020, Tunisia - Youth unemployment is one of the main challenges currently facing Tunisia. At the same time, however, it is precisely young women and men who have a crucial role to play in securing the future of agricultural value chains by making them more pr...

Digital innovation is boosting the fisheries supply chain in Oman during COVID-19

Joint statement from the Regional Directors of FAO and WHO

7 June 2020, Cairo, Egypt – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region is working to provide small-scale family farmers with the needed knowledge to overcome challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, including, on one hand, sa...

FAO assess COVID-19 and its impact on food security in the Near East and North Africa and how to respond

$1 million pledge for campaign to control threat to crops and forage

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, deliver...

In early February 2020, FAO distributed 1 500 head of livestock (mostly goats and sheep) to families in Haifan district of Taiz governorate in Yemen as a means of improving their ability to produce food for household consumption and earn extra income. 

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