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In February, when the streets of Sachkhere, Georgia are covered with snow and temperatures reach -2 degrees Celsius outside, 39-year-old Shorena Jambazishvili collects her plastic gloves, new syringes, some medicines and a smartphone and makes her way to the farm.

Through European Union (EU) support, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organised a mission of International FAO experts to Georgia in April 2023. The technical visit aimed to assist Georgia in developing a legislative framework for the nursery certification system and implementing CAC standards. The FAO...

The Agency for Homeless Animals in Kakheti was established in 2022 and within a year they operated about 4,000 homeless animals. 3209 of those manipulations included castration and sterilization. ‘‘This is a very high number, considering that our operating area is adapted for 3,500 dogs per year,’’ said Teimuraz Zavrashvili, the...

Tbilisi, Georgia – Otar Shamugia, Minister for Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia and Raimund Jehle, FAO Representative in Georgia signed a new project to support the low-emission and climate resilient development of agriculture sector. The new project is funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and implemented by the Food...

  12 April 2023 - Benchmark for world food commodity prices fall in March for the twelfth month in a row. FAO Food Price Index declined 2.1 percent from February and 20.5 percent from a year earlier The benchmark index of international food commodity prices declined for the 12th consecutive month in March,...