Lebanon

Ministry of Agriculture Strategy 2015 - 2019

Executive

Strategy

Passed in 2014

The Ministry of Agriculture Strategy sets the government's vision over the executive approach to agriculture over the period 2015-2019. aims at ensuring food safety and supply, plant and animal health, making sure that the agricultural sector enjoys good infrastructure, and adequate harvesting and marketing techniques.

The seventh course of action of the Strategy focuses on ensuring sustainable management and use of natural resources (land, forest, water, genetic resources, fisheries and aquaculture resources), notably in response to climate change impacts, land degradation, overgrazing, unsuitable cropping patterns, overuse of forest resources, over exploitation of fisheries vulnerable stocks. Adaptation measures shall be implemented through diverse programmes, and a study to estimate greenhouse gases emission from the agricultural sector, land use changes and forestry shall be conducted.

Documents

full text (pdf) (English)