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Emergency Agricultural Support to the Most Vulnerable Smallholder Farming Households Affected by Earthquake in Lattakia, Syria - TCP/SYR/3903

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Year of publication 2025

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 7

Publisher FAO ;

Category Factsheet

Synopsis (short abstract) The Syrian Arab Republic has been faced by a protracted crisis since 2011 as a result of economic contraction, food price inflation and disruption to basic infrastructure and services. Climate change has also led to drought-like conditions and abnormally high early season temperatures. These factors have produced increasingly high levels of food security among the population. The earthquake that hit both Turkey and northern Syria on 6 February 2023 increased the suffering of the population, above all in Aleppo, Hama, Idlib, Latakia and Tartous, the governorates directly affected by the earthquake. On top of the devastation in urban areas, thousands of rural homes and many schools, public service centres, irrigation canals, agricultural facilities, pens, dams, wells and water networks were damaged or destroyed. Lattakia governorate had been a key area of fruit production in the country, but this was affected by the protracted crisis. The northern part of the governorate was also affected by military operations, while all farmers suffered from such challenges as a lack of inputs to provide proper management for their crops and the destruction of water harvest systems. Seventy-one percent of farmers in the governorate reduced their spending on agricultural production, while 43 percent of farmers borrowed money to cover these agricultural expenses, and many others were unable to borrow what they needed.

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