News Archive
08 February 2017
- Improving agriculture regulations in low and middle income countries could go a long way toward feeding the world’s growing population and improving farmers’ livelihoods around the world, says the latest edition of the World Bank Group’s Enabling the Business of Agriculture ...27 January 2017
- Over 110,000 people in five of Tunisia’s districts in the Governorate of Siliana, home to some of the country's most disadvantaged people, will benefit from a financial agreement signed today between the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) ...
21 January 2017
- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced an important agreement which is the next step towards unlocking opportunities for smallholder farmers in the developing world.Together with a consortium of leading public and private sector organizations, the Patient Procurement Platform ...
17 January 2017
- The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) Egypt office today organised an inception workshop on a technical cooperation project to develop the value chain of dates in Egypt.
The workshop is part of the country’s Date Palm Strategy, ...
09 December 2016
- China’s poorest province, Guizhou, stands land-locked in the southwest of the country with a population of 40 million. Roughly 40% of residents belong to ethnic minorities and 28% live below the national poverty line. To help reduce poverty, a World ...