Joint statement from the Regional Directors of FAO and WHO

7 June 2020, Cairo, Egypt – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region is working to provide small-scale family farmers with the needed knowledge to overcome challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, including, on one hand, sa...

FAO assess COVID-19 and its impact on food security in the Near East and North Africa and how to respond

$1 million pledge for campaign to control threat to crops and forage

Tunis: In the current special situation of COVID-19, telework has become a necessity in order to ensure continuity, from a distance, in the implementation of FAO projects in Tunisia. Mr. Philippe Ankers, Coordinator of FAO in North Africa and Representative in Tunisia, deliver...

In early February 2020, FAO distributed 1 500 head of livestock (mostly goats and sheep) to families in Haifan district of Taiz governorate in Yemen as a means of improving their ability to produce food for household consumption and earn extra income. 

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Bari, 29 January 2020 – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has organized in collaboration with CIHEAM-Bari a pre-conference meeting in Bari, Italy to promote the plan to establish a regional trust fund that will support strategic programme to face tr...

Next stop: Regional Conference for the Near East in Oman

FAO points to the need to turn food systems into accelerators of the Sustainable Development Goals

The Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture and FAO launch the year under the theme "protecting plants, protecting life"

Tunis 30 December 2019

In collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Hydraulic Resources and Fisheries, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concluded a Program for training of trainers in Solar Powered Irrigation Systems as part of the...

14 December 2019, Cairo - FAO's Director-General QU Dongyu today met with Ezz El Din Abu Steit, Egypt's Minister for Agriculture and Land Reclamation. The Minister expressed his appreciation for the Director-General’s participation in the World Youth Forum, which kicked ...

Qu Dongyu arrives at the Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa and meets staff for breakfast

Tunis/Cairo 10 December 2019

With innovative ideas from young Tunisians, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concluded in Tunisia the Regional Conference on Improving Water Productivity in Agriculture in the Near East and North Africa.

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Workshop to strengthen African Union Member States for surveillance and Integrated Management of the Fall Army worm – Spodoptera frugiperda

Experts and decision makers meet in Tunisia to address Water Scarcity

Tunis 28 November 2019: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a Maghreb workshop on small-scale fisheries in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Hydraulic Resources and Fisheries of Tunisia and involving participants from the five Maghreb coun...

Towards Improved Indicators for Monitoring the Implementation of the SDGs

Algiers – 18 November 2019: The Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries in Algeria, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), launched the national start-up workshop of a project on unlocking the potential of treated wast...

Gathering of Experts and Decision Makers to Address Water Scarcity