The president of the René Moawad Foundation (RMF), former minister Nayla Moawad, spoke during an event held at the UN House in Beirut, to celebrate the ‘World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought’.
The event was under the patronage of Minister of Agriculture Ghazi Zaaiter.

In her intervention, Mrs Moawad said:

“As part of the René Moawad Foundation’s strategy to improve the Agriculture Sector in Lebanon, we have successfully been able to offer support to around 25,000 farmers through workshops on Building Agricultural Capacities, the distribution of agricultural equipment to cooperatives, and monthly incomes generated from the agricultural processing facilities and the agricultural establishments run by the Foundation.”

She added:

“The Foundation offers the basic and essentially needed support, as well as the required agricultural tools throughout the various stages of production and marketing. This helps enhance the work of the farmers’ cooperatives and associations, and supports development in the rural areas’ communities.
Our services have also introduced modern technologies to agricultural practices in these rural areas, enhancing the quality of the cultivated and the processed agricultural produce, and they have encouraged farmers to follow environmentally friendly agricultural practices within their circles and with the communities they work with.”

Moawad emphasized that “one of the priorities for the René Moawad Foundation is to improve the living conditions of the individuals and the rural societies in remote villages and regions, and to maintain sustainability in the natural and human resources of these communities.”