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Meeting of the National Focal Points for the Project on Promoting Food and Water Security in the Arab Region

05
-
06
October
2016
Location: 
Beirut, Lebanon
Theme: 
Natural Resources, Land and Food Security
Event Type: 
Expert Group Meeting

The meeting provided an opportunity to brief national focal points about the project, its objectives and components and progress to date. In addition, focal points met project partners and shared their country experiences and views regarding planned activities under the project and the way forward.

Tags: 
Promoting Food and Water Security in the Arab Region
Meeting details
Agenda
Information note (Arabic)
Meeting Report
Opening session
Presentation of the Food and Water Security Project: Objectives and implementation strategy (in Arabic)
Other
Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus in the MENA Region
Session 1
Assessment of agriculture under climate change and water variability: Overview of progress under component I of the project (in Arabic)
Methodology for evaluating climate change impacts on crop yield and crop water productivity
Plan of work and activities (in Arabic)
Session 2
Overview of component III, and the scope and set-up of an Arab-GAP framework
Overview of the Arab regional experiences and achievements in adopting an Arab-GAP framework (in Arabic)
Session 5
Component II: Regional coordination between agriculture and water (in Arabic)
Mapping of Arab regional water and agriculture institutions (in Arabic)
Proposed methodology for assessing coordination between the two sectors at the regional level (in Arabic)
Session 6
Approaches for monitoring food security (in Arabic)
Component IV: Monitoring food security in the Arab region (in Arabic)