Sous l’effet conjugué de politiques publiques généreuses, notamment en matière de réalisation d’infrastructures, et de dynamiques locales novatrices, le paysage des oasis a, dans certaines régions, profondément été modifié. C’est le cas de la wilaya de Biskra en Algérie où, depuis une vingtaine d’années, des palmiers en monoculture et des...

This issue of Farming Matters explores the different ways pastoral societies are joining forces to challenge the policies that undermine their culture and way of life. For millennia, pastoralist societies have managed the rangelands of the world’s most challenging environments, producing food and providing ecosystem services for millions of households. The experiences,...

On July 22nd, KariaNet network in collaboration with FAO Regional Initiative on Small-Scale Family Farming and the Communication for Development team launched an online survey and discussion on ICT applications and rural communication for family farming, involving specialists and practitioners from the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region. The online discussion is hosted on KariaNet's Google...

Dans une déclaration à la MAP, El Haïti a indiqué que le Maroc examinait avec la FAO la possibilité de préparer «les outils techniques et scientifiques» qui permettraient d'apporter une série de propositions visant la mise en œuvre de l'Accord de Paris pour limiter le réchauffement planétaire entre 1,5 et...

In recent years, both politics and the literature have shown considerable interest in organic farming with a view to sustaining healthy and environmentally-friendly consumption. Currently, organic consumption has increased almost everywhere and has extended even in countries that were initially producers and suppliers for western countries. Tunisia is one of...

Artisanal or small-scale fisheries (see definition in Box 9) represent an important share of the fisheries sector in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and the considerable role that they play in the region has long been recognized. Small-scale fisheries have the potential to make a significant contribution to food...

In Lebanon, the agricultural sector suffers from both internal and external problems that opposed its development. Relatively high production costs, unregulated use of chemicals and the absence of extension services can be considered the most important in addition to groundwater pollution, high-level migration towards cities, lack of economic policy for...

The Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the American University of Beirut announces a digital contest to collect stories related to food security through this hashtag: #AUBFoodSecurity on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Au Brésil comme au Maroc, le secteur agricole est marqué par des différences extrêmes en termes de tailles d'exploitation, de niveaux d'équipement, de capitalisation et de techniques de production. L'article compare les processus des politiques d'appui à l'agriculture familiale dans ces deux pays, au-delà de leurs grandes différences. Les politiques...

Le patrimoine oasien joue un rôle écologique important dans le maintien de la biodiversité, malheureusement ce patrimoine est fortement détérioré  par plusieurs facteurs entre autres l’exploitation irrationnelle de la ressource en eau, la désertification et le changement climatique ce qui accélère l’abandon de nombreux vergers phoénicicoles dans les oasis et...

Egypt faces two nutritional challenges. The first is the “growth-nutrition disconnect.” High economic growth has not been accompanied by reduction in chronic child malnutrition, at least throughout the 2000s. Instead, the prevalence of child stunting increased during this decade—an atypical trend for a country outside wartime. The second challenge is...

The main purposes of the HSBC Water Program are to provide and protect water sources, to inform and educate communities; to enable people to prosper and to drive economic development across the world. The full HSBC Water Program objectives can be found through the link https://www.thewaterhub.org/about Under this program come Food for the Future...

The CIHEAM intends, by launching this Mediterranean initiative for PhD students and young researchers, to set the bases of a permanent forum for communication, dialogue and publication for different partners in the field of research and rural development in the Mediterranean countries.

Cairo: 29 June 2016--The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Arab Women Investors Union (AWIU) and the industrial investors Guild Suez line channel  today launched a Regional competition for an “Aquaponics design”. The competition aims to raise awareness on the use of new and...

This paper begins by exploring what the term family farming means and how appropriate it is in the NENA region. It will explore more generally the role of farming and agriculture in the broader political economy of the region. The paper establishes the distinctive features of the region, what might...

Syrian farmers in the country’s western coastal governorate of Tartous, formerly among the world’s top producers of tomatoes, have started their first tomato harvest of the year with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP).Before the conflict in...

The Euphrates and Tigris river basin shared between four countries (Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq) is one that is highly vulnerable to climate change. These countries are interdependent on the water from the system to sustain ecosystem goods and services, agriculture and energy production, municipal and industrial water supply, livelihoods...

The aim of this seminar is to bring together experts and researchers from the agriculture and food sectors to debate over methodological and empirical issues regarding relationships among Euro-Mediterranean countries on topics such as food policy, trade and marketing. This seminar will also focus on the topics of food security and...

Dans les pays en développement, le crédit agricole ne s’est pas développé pour répondre aux besoins des agriculteurs. En Algérie, seuls 2,2 % d’entre eux ont bénéficié de crédit bancaire en 2015. L’étude des pratiques informelles de financement — largement développées — peut-elle inspirer la mise en place de systèmes de...

La priorité actuelle c'est la protection du métier de la pêche artisanale que beaucoup de gens quittent en raison du manque de la ressource et des conflits d'intérêts en mer entre les grands bateaux de pêche et les petits