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FAO organized the stakeholders’ consultative workshop on development of e-agriculture applications and knowledge products using Information and Communication Technologies, on 12 July 2019, in Islamabad. FAO is helping the Government of Pakistan develop a road map for transitioning towards e-Agriculture in Pakistan. These efforts will lead to the development of...

Songdo, 09 Jul 2019 In a sign of accelerating climate finance flows, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has signed an agreement to implement a project by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to enhance the climate resilience of farmers in Pakistan’s Indus Basin.GCF signed the Funded Activity Agreement...

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations organized workshops on accounting for water: boundaries, methodologies, and results in both Lahore and Karachi on July 1 and 3, 2019 respectively to share the preliminary results, data issues and scope of the adopted technologies in different sectors.Pakistan is facing increasing water...

The third agriculture development partner’s coordination meeting was held at the FAO Representation office in Islamabad, on 28 June 2019. Donors, development partners, and government counterparts participated in the meeting. The locust outbreak in Balochistan and Sindh, drought situation in Sindh, and the Prime Ministers Agriculture Emergency Programme were the...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) signed an agreement to develop the first national State of Food Security and Nutrition in Pakistan (SOFI) report. This will be the first national level SOFI report prepared along the lines of FAO’s annual flagship...