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FAO : Conflicts impose $16bn losses to Syrian agricultural sector

EghtesadOnline: In addition to the severe human suffering, war in Syria has imposed more than $16 billion of lost crop and livestock production and destroyed farming assets, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) has said in its latest report.
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Publish Date:04/April/2017 | 24:24

FAO assists Iran to improve aquatic genetic resources

EghtesdaOnline: FAO Representative to Iran Serge Nakouzi and Head of Iran Fisheries Organization Hassan Salehi on Wednesday signed a project agreement to improve genetic resources of Rainbow Trout fish in the country.
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Publish Date:05/November/2016 | 13:14

FAO highlights impacts of climate change on food security

EghtesadOnline: The Representation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in the Islamic Republic of Iran observed the World Food Day 2016 at a commemoration ceremony at Vahdat (Roudaki) Hall in Tehran.
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Publish Date:17/October/2016 | 21:13

FAO joins UNHCR to improve livelihood of Afghan refugees in Iran

EghtesadOnline: The FAO Representative to Iran received a Note of Appreciation on Wednesday from his UNHCR counterpart welcoming the Organization as the latest partner to the Solutions Strategy for Afghan Refugees (SSAR).
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Publish Date:28/September/2016 | 13:06

FAO stresses criticality of marine cage culture for Iran

EghtesadOnline: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ) is conducting a four-day technical workshop on Marine Cage Culture in Tehran thought which the Organization will lend its technical assistance to build a framework aimed to develop Iran’s mariculture industry.
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Publish Date:27/September/2016 | 14:46

FAO launches a four-year comprehensive program to save Urmia lake

EghtesadOnline: FAO signed an agreement on Tuesday with the Urmia Lake Restoration Commission (ULRC) at Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology to lend substantive technical assistance for the execution of an integrated program that aims ultimately to secure sustainable water resources management in the Urmia Lake basin.
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Publish Date:07/September/2016 | 13:26

Iran, FAO Launch Project on Sustainable Agro Production

EghtesadOnline: The Iran- FAO project has been implemented since the beginning of the current crop year with the aim of increasing rainfed production sustainability in the provinces of East Azarbaijan, Ardabil, Hamedan and Kurdestan.
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Publish Date:01/May/2023 | 21:56

FAO Helps Iran Upgrade Agro Monitoring Systems

EghtesadOnline: A recent report on the first phase of FAO project “Improve agriculture monitoring systems through satellite imagery for the Islamic Republic of Iran,” reveals how the introduction of multi-temporal high-resolution satellite imagery enabled the Iran’s Ministry of Agriculture to gather near-real time crop and field information, that can be used for agricultural monitoring, evaluation and planning, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said in a press release.
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Publish Date:16/November/2019 | 24:05

FAO Alert: Desert Locusts Threaten Iran Crops

EghtesadOnline: Iran has been placed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in the group of countries where crops face the threat of desert locusts.
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Publish Date:13/April/2019 | 14:26

FAO Forecasts Iran’s Cereal Output to Rise 12% in 2018

EghtesadOnline: Despite autumn dryness, crop conditions recovered in Iran and the total cereal production for 2018 is forecast to stand at 20.1 million tons to register a 2.9% increase compared with the 2017 total of 19.6 million tons and 12% above the five-year average.
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Publish Date:24/September/2018 | 05:44

FAO Surveys New Plant Breeding Approach in Iran

EghtesadOnline: An evolutionary, participatory plant breeding approach compatible with the Iranian environment has been successful in reducing vulnerabilities of small-scale farmers, improving crop yields and boosting crop resilience to drought and other stressful events.
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Publish Date:16/September/2018 | 05:28

FAO Will Help Improve Iran's Oilseed Production

EghtesadOnline: The office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Iran began a technical cooperation program called "Capacity Building for Increasing Sustainable Oilseed Production Focused on Soybean Value" in a workshop held in Tehran earlier this month, which will be carried out over two years (2017-19), the office said in a press release on Wednesda
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Publish Date:17/June/2017 | 05:34

FAO : Iran to become self-sufficient in meat production if losses reduced

EghtesadOnline: Based on research conducted under the FAO sub-regional project “Capacity Building for Food Loss Reduction in the Near East”, every year in Iran at least 100,000 tons of red meat is lost in the supply chain, which if reduced would lead to the country’s self-sufficiency in red meat production.
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Publish Date:24/August/2016 | 24:16