International food insecurity rose from 2015 to 2016, according to the Food Security Information Network’s (FSIN) Global Report on Food Crises 2017 released in March. One hundred and eight million people worldwide faced food insecurity at crisis level or worse in 2016, compared with eighty million…

Jordan is set to have its first-ever operational drought monitoring system as a result of collaboration between different organizations, including the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United States Agency…

Government Research for improving production in Lebanon dates back to the establishment of Tel Amara Station in the Bekaa Valley immediately after World War II as an agricultural training center. Later, in 1957, it became the Department of Agricultural Scientific Research of the Ministry of…

  Laws and decrees that dictated the establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture  In 1920, the Ministry was not yet founded. However, a decree appeared in the same year dictating the establishment of a breeding center for horses. Moreover, Trabaud - the Governor of the Lebanon - had published…

The National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) is a public institution established in 1962 and assigned with the task of formulating national science and technology policy, initiating, guiding, supporting and conducting scientific research programmes and activities in Lebanon. It advises the…