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Lebanon

FAO in Lebanon has successfully concluded a project

aimed at supporting farmers and enhancing their

marketing capabilities to sell safe agricultural products

Funded by the Government of Canada improving the quality of their production
through the Lebanon Recovery Fund, and enhancing their production skills.
and as part of the Joint United Nations Under the PSDP, FAO has bolstered
Productive Sectors Development the productive skills of 406 farmers from
Programme (PSDP), the Food and North Lebanon and Akkar. These farmers
Agriculture Organization concluded attended awareness sessions and
today a project that positively impacted received technical training on GAP and
over 406 male and female farmers in Occupational Safety and Health (OSH)
North Lebanon and Akkar.
practices through farmers field schools
During the project’s culmination, FAO (FFS). A total of 14 FFS were conducted
facilitated the gathering of farmers, in the North of Lebanon and Akkar,
presenting 65 of them with Integrated providing farmers with agricultural
Crop Management Certificates and inputs necessary to implement these
four farmers with Organic Agriculture practices.
Certificates tailored for fruits and
vegetable value chains. These The Productive Sectors Development
certifications comply with European Programme is a joint UN project
Union specifications, empowering these implemented by UNIDO, FAO,
farmers to access markets and sell their of inputs. They also emphasized FAO’s UNWomen, ILO, UNICEF and UNDP,
certified safe products support in sustaining them through the with funding from the Government of
Canada. The programme’s objective
Farmers expressed their satisfaction financial crisis of the past two years, is to create employment opportunities
with this project, citing benefits such empowering e them to apply good and economically empower women and
as technical training and distribution agricultural practices (GAP), thereby youth in disadvantaged areas.

FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture launches

a new project increasing the resilience

of Lebanon’s wheat value chain
In light of the current economic crisis and with the aim
of increasing the area planted with wheat, the Food and
Agriculture Oraganization of the United Nations (FAO) in
Lebanon in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture
and the Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute (LARI) is
currently implementing a project entitled “Enhance national
food security and support sustainable food systems by
increasing the resilience of Lebanon’s wheat value chain”
funded by the Government of Japan with a total budget of
USD 740,740
1 250 smallholder farm families most affected by the
economic crisis across rural areas of Lebanon namely in
Bekaa, Akkar and South Lebanon will receive 250 tonnes of
soft wheat seeds. Their livelihood and productive capacity
will be restored through the distribution of these certified
seeds for the production of wheat over two seasons.
Selected farmers were identified according to the The project will work on strengthening farmers’ capacities
adaptation and usual cultivation of wheat in addition to to produce wheat seeds, in addition to reinforcing the seed
putting in place the criteria required for selection of multiplication centre of LARI to increase the production of
beneficiaries in Akkar governorate, Bekaa and the South. wheat seeds.
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