The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – FAO- through its Smallholder Support Programme (SSP) – is launching series of business-oriented training events to support agricultural entrepreneurship in Syria, which will boost the ability of youth and women to develop their businesses, generate a proper income and improve their livelihoods.

The SSP-entrepreneurial training programme will allow smallholder farmers to develop - from being recipients of assistance to becoming important players in the recovery of agriculture sector in Syria. This will be achieved thanks to a cadre of experts on entrepreneurship education, starting in January 2020; these will later extend their knowledge to farmers and their families in Deir Ezzor, Aleppo, Homs and Al Hassakeh governorates.