FAO has provided an additional USD 200 000 to further strengthen Iran’s technical capacity to control Desert Locust.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan will be infested by desert locust.

Contract farming as a motivating system can bring about a win-win game for all the stakeholders of the agriculture as well as industry, an official of agriculture-jihad said.

The initial findings of a drought vulnerability and impact assessment in the Lake Urmia basin conducted to help the implementation of an integrated drought management system.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran Bureau of Aliens and Foreign Immigrants’ Affairs, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, and World Food Programme established a greenhouse as a joint program in Semnan province, located around 220 km east of capital Tehran, to help Afghan refugees. Financially and technically supported by FAO, the […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) –FAO reaffirms its readiness to assist Iran in the sustainable management of soil Tehran, 03 December 2019 – FAO Representative to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mr. Gerold Bödeker, said that the Organization is looking forward to further its collaboration with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran in sustainable management […]

Tehran (Iran News) – In the line of the Integrated Programme for Sustainable Water Resource Management in the Urmia Lake basin, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with Iran’s Atmospheric Science and Meteorological Research Center (ASMERC) held a validation workshop to examine the newly developed Combined Drought Index (CDI) for […]

Global food prices declined in August, driven by sharp falls in the prices of staple cereals and sugar, according to a report issued today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

27 August 2019, Tehran - Wider, appropriate and long-term application of genetic improvement in aquaculture, with a focus on selective breeding, will help boost food production to meet a projected increase in demand for fish and fish products with relatively little extra feed, land, water and other inputs, according to a new FAO report titled The State of the World's Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. 

The 24th session of the FAO Committee on Forestry (COFO 24) entitled “High-Level Discourse on Forests and Goals of Sustainable Development” kicked off in Rome, Italy in the presence of more than 120 countries including Iran. The role of forests for food security and nutrition, inland and outsourced forestry, key role of forestry and objectives […]