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The UN Food & Agriculture Organization has praised the resilience of a watershed management project in Morocco, which illustrates how the reduction of disaster and climate risks faced by communities can reduce poverty while increasing biodiversity. In its report “The State of the World’s Forests 2020”, FAO shed light on this pilot project carried out […]
Participants in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) webinar voted a Moroccan digital solution, dubbed Attaisir or Tighten up, as the best innovative initiative in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for the protection of farmers and vulnerable groups against COVID-19 contamination, announced the Moroccan Agricultural Development Agency (ADA). Attaisir came first out […]
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), QU Dongyu, said this Monday May 11 that significant gains had been made in the fight against the desert locust upsurge in East Africa and Yemen. He stressed, however, that more needs to be done to prevent a food security crisis, as the ongoing rainy season […]
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the African Union (AU), together with numerous additional partners, have launched the Flagship Initiative to Accelerate Youth Employment in Agriculture and Agribusiness in Africa. The Initiative was launched Thursday on the sidelines of the seventh Tokyo International […]
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAE), in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has helped Morocco achieve its first victory in the ongoing campaign to suppress Mediterranean fruit fly, sometimes referred to as the ‘medfly,’ which is threatening the country’s economy. To suppress the pet, the Moroccan Government and producers have committed […]
The African Union, the UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) organize the first joint International Food Safety Conference this Feb.12-13 in Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the 32nd AU summit. The conference brings together government leaders, senior policy makers, and representatives from international organizations, civil society and the […]
Public funding alone is not enough to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) said participants in the Global Forum organized Tuesday in Marrakech by the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), FAO and EU. They also called on international financial institutions to leverage private investments to tackle global challenges in food and agriculture. The […]
Morocco ranks as the first African fisheries producer and the 13th globally, the UN FAO said in a recent report. China topped the ranking followed by Indonesia, the US, Russia, Peru, India and Japan, shows the report dubbed The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture. Morocco and China remain the largest exporters of Octopus, the […]
Unlike in 2016 when only 2.7 million tons of wheat and 600,000 tons of barley were harvested mainly due to poor and erratic rains, prospects for the 2017 harvest look very promising, says FAO in its latest review. While parts of Morocco suffered from autumn drought up to mid-November 2016, which delayed plantings in some […]
The Food and Agriculture Agency of the UN (FAO) called for the adoption of immediate response to the dangers that may result from the rapidly depleting fresh water in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The Head of the UN agency Jose Graziano da Silva said in a press release following a visit to […]