A family owns four scattered plots of land, each no bigger than half a football field. Family members use precious time and fuel moving equipment, seeds and fertilizer from one plot to another – often driving across the crops of other families. The combined output of the four plots might...

The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in cooperation with the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) convened today the Food Security and Nutrition Session within the 2017 Arab Forum for Sustainable Development (AFSD). The Forum is...

Tajikistan’s roughly 3.8 million hectares of pasture – almost 29 percent of its total land area – feed the country’s meat-producing livestock. But these natural resources, particularly year-round pastures near villages, are being depleted and degraded.

Integrated community development planning, when applied in a participatory and inclusive way, can reduce rural poverty and lead to sustainable development. That has been the experience of FAO, said Raimund Jehle, Regional Programme Leader for the Organization in Europe and Central Asia, speaking here today at the opening of Agroforum...

Georgia has all of the ideal conditions for dairy farming. And demand for milk, cheese and other dairy products – many of which are produced only here – continues to grow.