In 2019, Afaf was laid off from her job working at the municipality of her village. As a single woman in Lebanon, it was hard to find another one. Farming became crucial for her income.However, Afaf knew she was going to have to invest in enhancing her farm’s productivity if it was going to become her livelihood. Unable to finance it from her own pocket, she looked for help from an FAO project.

Supported by the European Union (EU) and implemented by FAO in partnership with Agrinatura (a consortium of 31 European universities and research institutes), this project uses a community-based approach that works through reflection, group learning and increased engagement, helping farmers to better adopt innovative methods.

The Best Water Harvesting Practices Report provides recommendations for Scaling up activities in the development of new wadis and rehabilitation of existing wadis construction or rehabilitation of cisterns, Roman wells, and reservoirs provision of agricultural services to farmers and social aspects.

Overall, the 2020 evaluation found FAO projects to have succeeded in achieving expected outputs. The project on land reclamation and water conservation was particularly effective in reaching expected results with likelihood of longer term impact.

FAO, in partnership with the European Union, is supporting farmers by providing them with solar-powered pumps, water-saving drip irrigation kits and training on improved farming practices. The project has set up 42 similar water pumps in various districts across the country, boosting agricultural resilience to economic and ecological shocks.

The Somalia Water and Land Information Management (SWALIM) project has been implemented since inception as a continuum of objectives and activities leading towards empowering selected Somali institutions to achieve self-sufficiency in their capacity to generate and manage natural resources information.

The year-long project was implemented between Oct 2019 to Dec 2020. This project is part of the Next Generation Irrigation and Water Management for the Asia-Pacific Program (NextGen. Program), an AWP-FAO program aimed at modernizing Asia’s irrigation systems and water management practices.

The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture aims to provide objective, reliable and up-to-date information to a wide audience – policymakers, managers, scientists, stakeholders and indeed everyone interested in the fisheries and aquaculture sector.

This publication supports processes related to rural communities’ resilience in implementing land restoration of the Great Green Wall Programme on the ground. It serves a dual purpose of consolidating biophysical operations and socioeconomic assessments, and is mainly built on five-year interventions and practical experiences gathered through the FAO- Action Against Desertification (AAD) project.

The El Salvador country office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with the support of the Mesoamerica Hunger Free Program, helped to develop community and family Rainwater Harvesting Systems (SCALL in Spanish) to mitigate the effects of the drought facing the central American dry corridor.