"Souk aal Souk” farmer’s market aims at promoting organic and healthy food of local farmers and small producers from different Lebanese areas. It intends to build and strengthen linkages between urban residents and rural producers by offering city residents access to healthy traditional food, and direct contact with the producers....

Egypt has been suffering from severe drought and is going to face an even stronger scarcity of water resources used for agricultural production. Nowadays, 80% of the available water in Egypt is provided to the agricultural sector. Within the prospect of ongoing horizontal and vertical expansion of irrigated agriculture in...

The Khalifa International Date Palm Award was established under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE. The inauguration ceremony attracted both regional and international attention to the date palm tree and the strategic future of dates as a balanced food product, and highlighted...

تشكل الفلاحة العائلية النشاط الرئيسي في القرى والمداشر والتجمعات السكانية الثانوية بولاية سوق أهراس، انطلاقا من الجهة الغربية على مستوى أكبر سهول الولاية بكل من دائرة سدراتة ومداوروش إلى غاية الحدود المتاخمة لولاية أم البواقي، على مستوى بئر بوحوش وأم العظائم، وهي تعطي مردودا وفيرا من الحبوب الجافة والبقوليات على...

The meeting aims to disseminate among the selected member countries of FAO from the Near East and North Africa region the new WCA 2020 which will cover the period 2016-2025. The workshop is organized with the objective of helping the participants gain a deeper understanding of the new FAO recommendations...

Mr José Graziano Da Silva, General Director of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Mr Habib Ben Yahia, Secretary General of the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) signed Friday, May 13, 2016 an agreement of technical assistance of the implementation of a technical cooperation project for "Strengthening the capacity...

La principale contrainte freinant les agriculteurs à avoir accès aux crédits bancaires est leur "incapacité à fournir un titre de propriété", ont-ils indiqué lors d'une rencontre de vulgarisation sur les facilitations accordées par la BADR (les crédits Rfig, Rfig fédérateur, Ettahadi, et le leasing), organisée à l'initiative de la Banque...

Countries in the NENA region are facing enormous challenges to achieve their goals of eradicatinghunger and malnutrition while managing their natural resources in a sustainable manner. The persistent high population growth rates, averaging 2.2 percent for the whole region, and growing urbanization are placing heavy pressure on the demand for food. Large...

La Chambre de l'agriculture de la wilaya de Souk Ahras a organisé, les 21 et 22 mars, un séminaire sur le développement agricole durable et l'agriculture familiale. Les objectifs ciblés par cette rencontre, à laquelle ont assisté des spécialistes dans ce domaine venus de Montpellier (France), Tiaret, Mostaganem et l'INA...

Sustainable development is at the heart of FAO’s Strategic Framework. Driving FAO’s work on sustainability is the recognition of the complex interactions between different objectives and interests. The necessary transition towards sustainability needs actions that focus on effective changes in practices, including strengthening respective capacities, and ensuring an enabling policy...

Des experts et des professionnels du secteur agricole ont souligné à Alger la nécessité d'encourager les fermes familiales à contribuer à la résolution des problèmes dont souffre le secteur notamment l'instabilité de la production.Lors d'une rencontre organisée par la commission de l'agriculture, de la pêche et de la protection de...

La concurrence mondiale entre les pays producteurs d’huile d’olive est de plus en plus intense face aux exigences accrues des consommateurs en termes de qualité nutritionnelle, de traçabilité des produits, de conditions et de processus de fabrication. Toutes ces considérations obligent les opérateurs et les acteurs de la filière oléicole...

Supplemental irrigation is used to uphold even soil moisture levels by irrigating the fields during critical and dry periods to balance the scarcity of soil moisture in later growth stages and save the crops. The exact amount of water added and timing are explained in this practice. Additionally, some examples...

Water harvesting is an important technique to collect rainwater that can be used for different purposes in agriculture or stored and made available for the dry season. This practice describes the three main components of water harvesting systems, namely which are the catchment area, the storage area, and the target...

The overall objective of this Regional Initiative is to reduce rural poverty by promoting and supporting inclusive small-scale agricultural development, with special attention to governance and institutions, including improving access of smallholders to social protection, rural services and markets, strengthening the capacities of producers’ organizations and promoting youth employment and...

L’objectif principal de cette étude est d’apporter quelques éclairages sur le travail des femmes en milieu rural et leur accès à la protection sociale en Tunisie. Il s’agira notamment d’identifier les principaux freins à l’accès au système de protection sociale chez les femmes actives en milieu rural. Il s’agira également...

The FAO Youth Mobility, Food Security and Rural Poverty Reduction (RYM) project aims at mitigating distress economic mobility in Tunisia and Ethiopia. With the support of the Italian Development Cooperation, the project will promote innovative mechanisms and rural development strategies with the objective of mitigating distress migration for rural youth...

UNESCO and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS-France), in partnership with Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee and Tebtebba, will organize an international conference on indigenous knowledge and climate change. Indigenous peoples, scientists and governments are invited to a transdisciplinary dialogue to better understand the role that indigenous and...

The Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region is characterized by a wide variability in rainfall and temperature. In these areas, evapotranspiration largely exceeds the amount of rainfall, leading to droughts with low forage production and water availability. The concurrent increase in human population with the growing demand...

This practice presents a way to increase the efficiency of water use by supplemental irrigation (SI) in rain fed wheat production in Morocco. Emphasize is given to the different crop growth stages of wheat and the approach of supplemental irrigation (SI). The different stages of wheat growth are explained, outlining...