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Special Report: FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission to the Syrian Arab Republic

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 80 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-131773-0

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) A joint FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Mission (CFSAM) visited the Syrian Arab Republic between 8 June and 4 July 2019 to estimate crop production and to assess the country’s overall food-security situation. On arrival in the country, the international members of the CFSAM team spent three days in Damascus prior to going to the field. During that time, joined by a small number of national FAO and WFP staff, they held meetings with the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform (MAAR) and several other relevant ministries and state bodies of the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic. The team, consisting of national and international staff, then spent three weeks in the field collecting data and observing the agricultural and food-security situation in nine of the country’s 14 governorates. In Hama Governorate the team met national staff from two governorates, Raqqa and Idleb, which it was unable to visit for security reasons, to discuss the situation in those governorates. On return to Damascus the CFSAM team held meetings with the agricultural directors of Quneitra and Sweida, the two remaining governorates that it was unable to visit. The team also discussed its field findings and observations with the principal technical staff of MAAR. Prior to departure from the country, the Mission briefed the Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform on its main findings.

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​FAO. 2019. Special Report - FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission to the Syrian Arab Republic. Rome.

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