الزراعة الحرجية - هي نظام لإدارة إستخدام الأراضي تُزرع فيه الأشجار أو الشجيرات حول او بين المحاصيل أو المراعي - لها فوائد متنوعة، منها زيادة التنوع البيولوجي والحد من التعرية. إن الجمع بين الزراعة والحراج في حوض المتوسط له جذور عميقة في ثقافة التقاليد والإنتاج المتخصص، ولكنه فشل في الوقت الحاضر في هيكلة...

بدأ دعم أمانة عمّان لتنمية الزراعة الحضرية في المدينة في العام 2007 عندما أجرت "وحدة البيئة والتنمية المستدامة" ESDU في "الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت"، لبنان، بدعمٍ من مؤسّسة RUAF (الشبكة الدولية لمراكز الموارد المَعنيّة بالزراعة الحضرية والأمن الغذائي) دراسةً استطلاعية حول الزراعة الحضرية في عمّان، تلاها مشروعٌ بالتعاون مع "أمانة...

أطلقت منظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة (الفاو) الدليل التوجيهي لمدارس المزارعين الحقلية في الاردن بالتعاون مع المركز الوطني للبحث والإرشاد الزراعي. حضر حفل الاطلاق السيد فوزي الشياب، مدير المركز الوطني للبحث والإرشاد الزراعي، ممثلا وزير الزراعة، والسيد نصرالدين حاج الامين، ممثل منظمة الفاو في الاردن، وعدد من وزراء الزراعة السابقين ومسؤولين...

The city of Amman is the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and lies in the northern part of the Kingdom, covering an area of 1700 km2 with an estimated population of 2,200,000 inhabitants. Annual average rainfall is 275 mm. The poverty rate in Amman reached 8.5 percent in...

How can rain-fed crops grow without rain? That is the question facing farmers in water-stressed regions where rising temperatures, prolonged periods of drought and other impacts of climate change threaten food security and livelihoods. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), climate solutions hold answers to...

 Food systems stakeholders in Albania, Jordan, and Morocco have gotten a boost from a project funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to operationalize their food systems transformation pathways. “SFS-MED: a multi-stakeholder...

The multispecies (spp.) plant genus Opuntia (commonly referred to as cactus pear) plays a significant socioeconomic, environmental and nutritional role for many countries in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, which comprises 18 member countries of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Opuntia spp....

Food system transformation is needed to address the hundreds of millions of people without adequate access to food or water for a healthy life. Nutrition and malnutrition are closely linked to water for food, sanitation and hygiene. With 30 percent of the world’s population living in water-stressed environments, the impacts...

The World Resources Institute (WRI) partnered with Resource Equity (RE) and organizations in five countries to identify and conduct case studies of five communities that have relatively gender-equitable land tenure systems. The case studies investigated the extent and strength of women’s tenure rights and drew out the main factors or...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) launched  pioneering project to provide capacity building and technical support for the Integrated Agri-Aquaculture (IAA) farming systems in Jordan.In line with a technical cooperation agreement signed between the two parties in early January, FAO...

The purpose of this project is to empower decision-makers to plan for and manage the impacts of droughts on food and water security under current and future climate conditions.

Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan was once a rural town of 12,000 inhabitants. It is now home to at least 120,000 refugees - most of whom have fled the conflict in Syria. This sudden increase in population created competition for already limited resources. But investments in agricultural production and access...

The conference will bring up local as well as international researchers, senior scientists, policymakers, and other stakeholders from all over the world dealing with water resources management in arid lands. The conference will serve as a wide-ranging forum for exchange of innovative approaches and novel knowledge and experience in water...

The Project “Implementing the 2030 Agenda for water efficiency/productivity and water sustainability in NENA Countries” has been conceived and formulated to set the proper framework for implementing the 2030 Agenda for water efficiency/productivity and water sustainability (SDG 6, Target 6.4). This Inception Workshop of the Project brings beneficiary countries and...

The program aims to improve, among other things, dialogue and cooperation among three riparian countries of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers through increased access to information and knowledge transfer regarding water management in the region. The riparian countries have different levels of development, and capacity, in managing water on national...

Agriculture is an important part of the Jordanian national economy. The majority of the rural population in Jordan is involved in agriculture, and many livestock farmers live in areas close to the border with Syria, from where hundreds of thousands of refugees, many with their livestock, have fled since 2011....

The rationale of this project is to reduce vulnerability of the rural Jordanian and the disadvantaged communities in the context of water scarcity for agriculture, increased demand for food and livelihood provision from growing populations, and rising energy demand. To this end, the project pilots a three-pronged, community-based approach, combining...

Jameed is an important dairy product in Jordan that has been produced in the region for centuries and used as a main ingredient in popular traditional cuisine called Mansaf. Jameed is a hard dry skimmed yogurt, mainly processed using sheep milk using a small scale labor-intensive process. Jameed processing is...

Urgenci, the international network of Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agroecology between producers and consumers (LSPA) and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). As part of the 3-year mutual commitment, the Mediterranean network, including members...

Between November 22 - 25, 2017 Lebanon hosted the 2nd Learning Journey on LSPA: Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agro-ecology between producers and consumers. Around 20 facilitators from 11 Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia, Turkey, Syria) participated and shared their experiences through meetings and site...