News and Events

Seminar on Competitiveness of Agricultural Exports

The NAPC held a seminar on August 1^st about the “Competitiveness of Agricultural exports”. It was delivered by FAO consultant Jose Coque, from the University of Valencia at the NAPC premises. The seminar addressed several topic; globalization, assessing competitiveness, Syrian ranking
compared to factor driven economies, Syrian
agro-food competitiveness, and other related issues.

Training workshop about export competitiveness

A training workshop on competitiveness of Agricultural exports was held at the NAPC premises from 22 to 26 July. The workshop combined the following items; basic concepts, tools and methods, understanding case studies in developing countries, applying the methods to the Syrian value chains. The training was delivered by FAO consultant Jose Coque.

Training Course for Palestinian Engineers

Under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform; the Arab Agricultural Engineers Federation, the Islamic Development Bank, and the NAPC jointly organized a training course on “Agricultural Policies Management” for Palestinian agricultural engineers of the Palestinian National Authority. The course is held at NAPC premises during the period 17-28 of this month...more

FAO Project fifth Steering Committee Meeting

The Fifth Steering Committee Meeting of the FAO Project GCP/SYR/006/ITA “Sustainable Capacity Consolidation of the National Agricultural Policy Center (NAPC)” took place on 9-10 May at the NAPC premises.
The Steering Committee is composed of representatives of FAO, Government of Syria, and Government of Italy.

The 4th National Agricultural Policy Workshop

Under the patronage of the Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, the National Agricultural Policy Center (NAPC), supported by the FAO Project GCP/SYR/006/ITA, organized the 4th National Agricultural Policy Workshop at Cham Palace, Damascus, on May 8th.

This workshop was devoted to the discussion, in at national and international level, of the results of a major studies prepared by the NAPC, and by international experts in the field.

Agricultural Risk Management in a Market Oriented Economy

The National Agricultural Policy Center held a seminar on the “Agricultural Risk Management in a Market Oriented Economy; The challenges for Syrian Agricultural Policy”.

The seminar was delivered by Dr. Carlo Cafiero, from the University of Naples on 23 January, at the NAPC premises. more

An internal seminar on Economic Risk Management, Dr. Cafiero

An internal seminar on economic risk management was held at NAPC premises on January 15. The Seminar has been delivered by Dr. Carlo Cafiero, and it covered basics of the economic analysis of risk, issues concerning risk in agriculture ,private tools for risk management in agriculture, and policies for risk reduction and farmers' income stabilization.