Quetta, July 15, 2024 – Quetta, July 15, 2024 – The Food and Agriculture Organization...
Meetings in Islamabad with Sania Nishtar and Malik Amin Aslam review the government’s income support programme for rural women and FAO’s Green Climate Fund-backed project along the Indus River.
ISLAMABAD - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu held high-level meetings in Pakistan today to discuss climate change and strategies to eradicate poverty.
He met...
FAO launches its First e-Learning Course on Pakistan Dietary Guidelines for Better Nutrition
14 February 2020
14 February 2020
The FAO Representation in Pakistan has developed its first self-paced e-learning course available through email. The Pakistan Dietary Guidelines for Better Nutrition (PDGN) e-learning course is based on the PDGN publication, prepared jointly by the Government of Pakistan Planning Commission Nutrition Section and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the...
Islamabad – Youth from partner organizations, women associations, government officials, private sector entities and civil society community members and organizations (CSOs), including academia and think tanks, for the first time in Pakistan jointly participated in the preparations for and gave substantive inputs to the 35th UN FAO Regional Conference for...
Agro-ecological zones of Punjab - Pakistan
07 January 2020
07 January 2020
Agriculture contributes approximately one-quarter of provincial gross domestic product (GDP) in the Punjab Province. The provincial share is two-third of the total national agricultural output, leading in major commodities meant for food security in the country. The sector employs roughly 13 million people or 45 percent of the Punjab labor...
Technical session on Accounting for Water: Spatial Boundaries, Methodologies, and Results
18 December 2019
18 December 2019
Pakistan faces an acute water shortage which is compounded by high climatic variability. In light of the growing concerns to address the water crisis, sustainable management of water resources merits urgent attention and remains a key government priority. In an effort to promote judicious management of water resources and informed...