FAO Achievements in Egypt

FAO Achievements in Egypt

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FAO country Representation office was opened in 1978. During the past years FAO has cooperated and participated in most agricultural and rural development activities which reflect the needs of the country. FAO provided technical assistance from both regular and field programmes which covered policy advice, strategy planning and capacity building. FAO also contributed in the Egyptian agricultural development through identification, preparation and appraisal of investment projects. FAO executed 15 0 projects, amounted US$55,234,702 (annex 1) projects were targeted to focus on resolving technical issues in fields such as hybrid rice promotion, animal health, information technology, monitoring of natural resources, capacity building, intensification and diversification of Agricultural production systems, forest policy formulation, rice straw management and conservation of environments, agricultural extension, Nile water use management and sustainability, integrated pest management, fisherie s information, and statistics for agricultural. Ongoing technical assistance included control of Avian Influenza, climate change risk management, results- based monitoring and evaluation system for monitoring the implementation of the agriculture strategy 2030, risk impacts of sea level rise on groundwater, mainstreaming population, environment and food security issues into agricultural extension programmes, institutional cooperation to support responsible fisheries and national contingency plan ning against races of wheat rust. 4