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04/12/19FAO and BUITEMS are co-hosting Promoting SDG8 to Develop Agri-Entrepreneurship for Balochistan Youth, an event to raise awareness and promote SDG8 among youth hosted on BUITEMS campus on 4 December in Quetta. Through their work, both FAO and BUITEMS have shown commitment and on-the-ground results in support of SDG8.  Sustainable...

Agriculture has been at the core of human society’s survival through civilization, and has today a strategic role in ensuring enough safe and nutritious food for all people at all times on the planet and sustainable management of natural resources. The Green Revolution opened the way for adoption of high...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations celebrated World Food Day on October 16. As part of the celebrations, FAO, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization and various other stakeholders, celebrated International Day of Rural Women on 18 October in Islamabad. Based on the theme ‘Rural...

16 October 2019,Islamabad: World Food Day 2019 was marked at the National Agriculture Research Centre (NARC) in Islamabad by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) together with the Ministry of National Food Security Research, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC), World Food Programme (WFP), Oxfam and research...

The Chilgoza forests are mainly located in the dry temperate zone of Pakistan, where there is less rainfall compared to snowfall. Chilgoza trees grow between 2000 to 3350m above sea level in the Hindukush- Karakoram-Himalaya region of North Pakistan. Chilgoza pine forests hold tremendous importance from both ecological and socio-economic...