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...

Wherever you go, whatever you produce, whatever you believe in, Women of the mountains are determined to lead their societies for survival.

La nouvelle stratégie relative au développement du « Conseil Agricole » a été élaborée par le Département de l'Agriculture avec pour objectif l'accompagnement des agriculteurs et le transfert du savoir-faire agricole sur le terrain. Cette stratégie vient pallier les nombreuses déficiences constatées dans le dispositif dit de " vulgarisation", qui pêchait...

This guide will serve as a significant tool for practitioners in Lebanon and the Arab countries who are attending to the issue of child labour in agriculture. Moreover, it represents a pillar for present and continuous collaborative efforts between two sister UN agencies (the ILO and FAO) and their national...

Le numérique, les technologies de l’information et de la communication constituent un déterminant de plus en plus important dans les stratégies agricoles et de développement rural. De manières inégales et différenciées ces dynamiques globales se diffusent dans l’ensemble des pays méditerranéens qui doivent faire face à la rareté des ressources naturelles,...

This report provides an overview of a study conducted in the NENA region in 2015-2016 in partnership with FAO, CIRAD, CIHEAM-IAMM and six national teams, each of which prepared a national report. In the six countries under review in the NENA region (Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan and Tunisia), agriculture...

In the world of agriculture, all too often we stop cultivating a vegetable or raising an animal breed simply because they are not profitable enough. The economic market is oriented to maximizing yields at all costs, concentrating on a small selection of the most “productive” species. Though it may warrant...

Damascus- 22 June 2017: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in the framework of its on-going EU funded project, has organized a one-day workshop to establish the resilience programming network for agriculture sector in Syria.  The workshop took place in Damascus on June 12th 2017 and...

Rural Egyptian women play a key role in food security, income generation and agricultural production but their contributions remain invisible and they face difficulties in accumulating assets, accessing work opportunities under decent work conditions and respective training, and have limited bargaining power at the household and community levels. Therefore, it...

The study relies on national data and accessible documents; academic and non-academic literature, including development projects documents. The study involved also interviews with key stakeholders to identify and analyze their experience about the current and past state of affairs on public policies in support of small-scale agriculture (SSA). The final...

Les difficultés de commercialisation entravent le bon fonctionnement de la filière dattes en Algérie, particulièrement pour les cultivars à faible valeur marchande. Afin de tirer profit des expériences extérieures, et notamment de celles des agriculteurs des pays européens et des pays voisins (Maroc et Tunisie), de nombreux mécanismes et outils...