Study on small-scale agriculture in the Near East and North Africa region. Overview

This report provides an overview of a study conducted in the NENA region in 2015-2016 in partnership with the FAO, CIRAD, CIHEAM-IAMM and 6 country’ national teams who had prepared 6 national reports ((Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan and Tunisia). The study was supervised by the FAO regional office in Cairo under its regional initiative dubbed Sustainable Small-Scale Agriculture for Inclusive Development in NENA Region. This overview focuses on the features and characteristics of small-scale family farming. Additional information may be found in related national reports to situate this type of agriculture within the national agricultural sector, and hence consider some interactions between various forms of agriculture.