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Book (stand-alone)FAO Regional Office for the Near East Achievements from 1991-2010 2011
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No results found.The Near East Region encompasses countries that are vastly different in their development and in their natural resource endowment1. They nonetheless face a common set of problems and challenges that have adversely impacted their development prospects and have multiplied the risks of instability in food supply and food security. The fragile resource base in terms of narrow and dwindling water availability, degrading agricultural land resources, declining rate of productivity growth of the major c rops coupled with a persistence of high population and urbanization growth rates have amplified the structural imbalance between food needs and food production and increased the difficulties in balancing employment and income generation. Food insecurity is further aggravated by the increasing environmental degradation, natural and human- induced disasters including conflicts, as well as the looming climate change threat. With a growing food deficit, the region has become increasingly dependent o n food imports and therefore vulnerable to vagaries of the international market and to possible food quality and price shocks. The FAO interventions and support in the region have been geared to address these challenges and constraints and help member countries achieve tangible results in terms of food security and eradication of hunger through sustainable agricultural and rural development while ensuring coherent natural resource management. FAOs programme for technical assistance is articulate d around the following priorities that have been jointly identified by member countries: 1. Enhancing food security and nutrition: 2. Fostering agricultural production and rural development for improved livelihood 3. Promoting sustainable natural resources management 4. Responding to climate change impacts and developing adaptation strategies 5. Preparedness for, and response to, food and agriculture emergencies The implementations of this programme rests on working closely with sub-regional and country offices as well as FAO technical divisions in Rome, and through establishing partnerships with national institutions, UN agencies, regional and international organizations, civil society, and other development partners. -
DocumentMongolia and FAO: Achievements and Success Stories 2011
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No results found.Mongolia became a member of FAO in 1974, and was accredited through the FAOR office in China. However, since 2000, a full FAO Liaison has been established in Ulaanbaatar, also accredited to the FAO Representative in China. The FAO Liaison Office in Mongolia was opened on 1 July 2009. The Liaison Office facilitates projects implementation according to FAO rules and regulations. Prior to the opening of the office, distance, communication and language obstacles often hindered timely delivery of pro ject inputs and results. Agriculture plays an important role in Mongolia’s economy, contributing 21.7 percent to GDP, accounting for 14 percent of export earnings and employing 40 percent of the labour force. FAO has been playing an important role in introducing technical know how and assisting the government in rebuilding sectors such as livestock breeding, dairy and forestry that collapsed during the jarring transformation from a centrally planned, socialist economy to a market-oriented and de mocratic system. FAO has been providing technical support and implementing projects in areas such as food security and safety, agricultural statistics, water management and irrigation, actions against soaring food prices, regional control of transboundary animal diseases, livestock products processing, and forestry. Since Mongolia joined FAO in 1974, it has received assistance to the tune of $3.7 million under the Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP), and roughly $3.4 million under four Trust F und projects for a total of US$7.167 million. During the last five years, FAO programmes and projects have been dramatically increased, mainly focusing on the livestock sector with active the collaboration of government counterpart -
DocumentThailand and FAO: Achievements and Success Stories 2011
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No results found.Thailand became a member of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on 27 August 1947. Over the last three decades, and moving gradually from a recipient into a donor country, Thailand has contributed significantly to FAO to fulfil its mandates. The keen interest and personal involvement of Thailand’s Royal Family in agricultural and rural development in the country have been crucial elements of the evolving partnerships between Thailand and FAO. In this connection, FAO has a warded the Ceres Medal to Her Majesty the Queen in 1979, and the Agricola and TeleFood Medals to His Majesty the King in 1995 and 1999, respectively. There are, moreover, special projects initiated by the government such as the debt restructuring scheme, the village fund, the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) fund, and the universal healthcare scheme supporting the operation. Over the past half century, Thailand’s agricultural sector has moved beyond self-sufficiency to making the nation a major food exporter. Today, Thailand plays an important role as a regional food centre and ‘kitchen of the world’, feeding its own population and contributing to the food security of people in and outside of Asia. Indeed, Thailand stands as the world number one exporter of rice sharing over 30 percent of the global rice trade volume, in addition to canned tuna fish, natural rubber, etc. FAO’s direct support – or field programme in Thailand – was initially mainly supported by UNDP which had provided s ince 1950 some US$50 million for financing 136 FAO implemented projects till the early 1990s. In addition, FAO’s Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) – funded from the Organization’s own regular programme – started in 1977. Since then 105 full-scale and close to 20 small-scale TCP Facility projects with a combined budget of approximately US$14 million have been approved by the FAO Director-General. Another financing modality for field programmes started in 1997, the worldwide TeleFood Special F und, under which Thailand implemented 36 projects until now with a total budget of about US$260 000. Finally, 17 donor funded Trust Fund projects were implemented – both long-term and emergency – since the 1980s with a total budget of US$5.1 million. In overall, 314 projects have been or are being implemented by FAO in Thailand with a total budget of US$70 million. In addition, Thailand has benefitted from nearly 100 global/regional projects in which the country participated.
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