En Tunisie, l’agriculture familiale fait face à un grand nombre de contraintes et « court le risque d’une disparition pure et simple » (Amri, 2002) sous l’effet conjugué de plusieurs facteurs structurels: un morcellement important des exploitations, un vieillissement de la population rurale, un désintéressement des jeunes, -enfants d’exploitants agricoles-,...

L’un des objectifs de la politique laitière consiste à favoriser la croissance de l’offre nationale, production et collecte, par un système de subventions et de primes destinées directement aux éleveurs. L’objectif de cet article est d’évaluer le rôle de ces aides sur le revenu laitier des éleveurs. Après une caractérisation...

Dans les pays en développement, les agriculteurs dépendent, pour la commercialisation de leurs produits, d’un réseau complexe d’intermédiaires, souvent accusés de réaliser des profits excessifs. C’est le cas en Algérie, où ce discours est relayé par les agriculteurs et les consommateurs. Est-ce une réalité ou un préjugé infondé ? Cette étude...

La Petite Agriculture Familiale (PAF) est fortement fragilisée par la conjonction de plusieurs facteurs; d’abords le foncier avec la complexité des statuts, les problèmes des héritages, indivision et morcellement. Ensuite les marchés ; en dehors de la production laitière et des produits de terroirs (récemment impulsés par le Plan Maroc...

L’objectif principal de la Route est d’améliorer la compréhension, parmi les projets du FIDA et les principales parties prenantes, des problématiques liées à la garantie des droits à la terre et à l’eau dans des systèmes d’irrigation pour une meilleure productivité agricole, et ainsi améliorer les moyens d’existence des personnes...

This report provides a brief summary of the proceedings and recommendations of the "Use of Treated Wastewater in Agricultural Production in the Arab World: Current Status and Future Prospective" conference , held in Dubai during January 2014 under the patronage of H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy...

The League of Arab States, Arab Organization for Agricultural Development, and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) jointly organized a side event titled “Developing a Strategic Framework on Fisheries: Towards Sustainable Fisheries in the Arab Region” to present their ongoing collaboration on the implementation of SDG 14 with the aim of...

La mise en place des normes internationales de développement durable incite les pays à organiser la planification à une échelle locale et de façon participative. L’objectif de cet article est de montrer de quelle manière l’environnement est pris en compte à cette échelle dans 19 documents de planification de trois...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held a two-day inception workshop in Muscat on the regional technical cooperation project entitled “Strengthening National Capacities of Producer Organizations in the Near East and North Africa”, which will focus on three countries from the region: The Sultanate of Oman,...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has organized farmer-to-farmer study trips for farmers from the Near East and North Africa (NENA) Region in order to facilitate knowledge sharing and the exchange of experiences to develop the integrated agri-aquaculture sector in the region. FAO gathered farmers from Algeria,...

The publication presents the linkages between the regional Initiative on Small-Scale family Farming in the NENA region with the 20130 Agenda and its contributions to the SDGs. The Regional Initiative in this sense is aligned with FAO's broad priorities in the 2030 Agenda: End poverty and malnutrition; enable sustainable development...

This document reviews the status and trends in aquaculture development in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region. It updates the last Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) “Regional Review on Status and Trends in Aquaculture Development in the Near East and North Africa – 2010”...

The purpose of this evaluation was to review the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO’s) programme in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS), and to better align it with the needs of the Palestinian government as well as affected populations. The evaluation also aimed to enhance...

The booklet will include information about all projects that FAO Egypt implemented for Egypt or as part of a regional initiative. It will cover projects implemented in Egypt since 1978 till date. It will also include on-going projects as well as projects that just started. The main sections of the...

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...

Agriculture contributes significantly to Morocco’s economy and employs 40 percent of the country’s workforce. But the sector continues to face major challenges and important steps need to be taken to make it more sustainable. Working with the private sector to pave the way is key. With this in mind, the...

Family farmers in the West Bank are growing high value crops such as almonds and apricots on once-barren hillsides, seeing their incomes rise by 80 per cent or more. About 36,000 people have taken part in an IFAD-funded natural resource management programme, which prioritized terracing, fencing, irrigation, rock removal and...

The FAO Regional Initiative on Small-Scale Family Farming has just concluded the first ever e-learning series on social protection and agriculture for the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, aimed at continuing the sensitization and practical capacity development of governments in the region to effectively adopt social protection policies that...

Water managers, farmers and those living in rural areas will relate how they are experiencing today the impacts of a drier, hotter and more extreme climate in the MENA region. Yet there is little published research and analysis of these changes and their impacts. In two recently completed projects, climate...