The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today joined with partners at the COP27-Water Pavilion to announce the ambition to mobilize more than $200 million from 2021 to 2025 to build water and sanitation resilience and security in Asia and the Pacific.

On Friday November 11th, 2022, FAO and IWMI will be hosting the Thematic Day 4 (TD4) at the COP27 Water Pavilion on Climate Smart Agriculture for Food Security, Adaptation, and Sustainability.  

The official launch of the Water and Climate Pavilion on the first day of COP27 highlighted the role of water in combating the climate change challenge.

Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Egyptian Prime Minister, chaired this high-level event, which was also attended by His Excellency, Mr. Emoma...

Starting Tuesday November 8th, 2022, the COP27- Water Pavilion  will start with organizing a session on “Financing Climate Resilience through Investments in Water”.

Sharm El Sheikh (November 7): In his interview today (November 7, 2022) with CNBC Arabia, Mr. Abdul Hakim Elwaer, Assistant Director General UN- FAO Near East and North Africa, articulated the challenges facing the African and Arab Regions in meeting the SDG-2 (Zero Hunger) and achieving food security. 

On the road to COP27 Climate Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) in partnership with FAO hosted a “Pre-COP27: Water Pavilion Preparatory Meeting” during Cairo Water Week (CWW) 2022.  

FAO-RNE hosts an interesting session at Cairo Water Week focusing on the opportunities of storage across scales (from in-situ to broader scales) and give examples of FAO’s joint work with partners working Rain Water Harvesting (RWH).

FAO-RNE hosts an interesting session at Cairo Water Week to discuss ways to scale up water-related action for food and climate security as part of the Inter-Regional Technical Platform on Water Scarcity (

FAO-RNE hosts an interesting technical session at the Cairo Water Week focusing on climate change impact on water consumption and water productivity of crops.

The FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa – FAORNE, in collaboration with the Joint Technical Secretariat of the Joint Water-Agriculture Arab Ministerial Council and ESCWA, organized a physical workshop (26-27 September 2022) at the League of Arab States premises in Cairo to initiate the piloting of the “Guidelines on Improved Water Allocation for Agriculture” in four countries (Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, and Tunisia), and a virtual meeting (3-4 October 2022) to promote the guidelines and raise the awareness of stakeholders on approaches and tools to improve water allocation in support of food security in the Arab region.

AQUASTAT, FAO's Global Information System on Water and Agriculture, just released a new dissemination system that provides free access to over 180 variables and indicators by country and by year since 1960. It draws on national capacities and expertise with an emphasis on Africa, the Near East, countries of the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Earth Observation Africa (EO-Africa) initiative of the European Space Agency, ESA, recently launched a series of webinars covering topics related to the use of EO to assess and monitor the state of water and food security-related spatial components.  The objective of this initiative is to facilitate the sustainable adoption of Earth Observation and related space technology in Africa.

Egypt’s Ministries of International Cooperation, Environment and Communications and Information Technology in partnership with the USAID, WFP, Afreximbank, Google, UNIDO, and others is organizing ‘’ClimaTechRun’’ global competition for tech-entrepreneurs and digital artists addressin...

FAO will be participating in a Talkshow on ‘’Open Data to Support SDG6, towards UN Water Conference 2023’’ at the World Water Week on Thursday the 1st of September, 2022.

The COP27 Water & Climate Pavilion, led by the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation invites interested participants to submit event and speaker proposals between 15 August - 15 September 2022,  for consideration by the Steering Committee of the Water & Climate Pavilion. 

Jerusalem — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 31 August held a closing workshop under the Palestine component of the regional project “Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Water Efficiency/Productivity and Water Sustainability in Near East and North Africa Countries,” funded by Sweden.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with IHE Delft Institute for Water Education launched a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on water accounting and auditing. This self-paced and free course aims to increase knowledge about water accounting and auditing. The course has been developed under the framework of the regional project “Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for water efficiency/productivity and sustainability in the Near East and North Africa region (WEPS-NENA)”.

FAO regional office for the Near East and North Africa (NENA) recently launched the first edition of the State of Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture Report (SOLAW) during a regional hybrid event organized on the 27th of July, 2022. 

28 June 2022, Cairo, Egypt – “The inter-Regional Technical Platform on Water Scarcity can help transform more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agri-food systems, for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life for all, leaving no one behind,” said Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Today, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Lebanon, in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture, concluded the training of facilitators for the Farmers Field Schools, which lasted eight consecutive days. Twenty-eight facilitators from the Ministry of Agriculture ...