Consumers’ Rights Protection and Meat Safety Issues in Armenia  “Protection of Consumers’ Rights” NGO has launched a new project aimed to improve meat safety in Armenia through raising the level of awareness and consumer protection. To achieve this goal, PCR is carrying out a multimedia campaign within the frames of the project “Support to Abattoir development in Armenia” (supported  by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and financed by the government of Greece). >> Public Service Advertisement >> Posters >> Booklets

WHICH ARE TOP TRANSPARENT WEBSITES IN ARMENIA? The website of the Ministry of Agriculture of Armenia was ranked as the third top-transparent official website by the Freedom of Speech Defence Committee.

Regional training course in GMO Risk Communication, public awareness and public participation was held on 1-4 February 2011, in Tbilisi, Georgia Regional training course in GMO Risk Communication, public awareness and public participation was held on 1-4 February 2011, in Tbilisi, Georgia as an activity in the frame of the regional (Armenia, Georgia, Moldova) FAO project for Capacity building in agricultural biotechnologies and biosafety. Facilitated by Nevena Alexandrova, Agricultural Research and Biotechnology Officer, FAO REU, the training provided necessary platform to:

• enhance knowledge of the overall principles in Risk analysis: risk assessment, risk management and risk communication with respect to agricultural biotechnologies with focus on risk communication;
• create awareness on the international treaties dealing with GMO risk communication, public awareness and participation in the decision-making;
• develop practical experience in communicating biosafety issues with different stakeholder groups: scientists, policy-makers, farmers and media;
• increase the capability of the biosafety regulatory authorities in Armenia, Georgia and Moldova to plan and design a public awareness campaign on biosafety; hold public hearings before releasing into environment a product of the modern agricultural biotechnologies and recombinant DNA plants; implement public participation procedures;
• train trainers, able to use and spread different communication approaches for biosafety related issues taking in consideration local societal specificities.

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Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received Jutta Krause On February 8, the Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received Jutta Krause, the Regional Coordinator for Central Asia and Eastern Europe of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Welcoming the guest, Edward Nalbandian mentioned that good traditions of effective cooperation between Armenia and FAO have been formed for years. The sides underlined the successful passing and good organization of the 36th Session of FAO’s European Commission on Agriculture and the 27th European Regional Conference held in Yerevan on May 10-14, 2010.

Earliest Known Winery Found in Armenian Cave As if making the oldest known leather shoe wasn't enough, a prehistoric people in what's now Armenia also built the world's oldest known winery, a new study says.   Undertaken at a burial site, their winemaking may have been dedicated to the dead—and it likely required the removal of any fancy footwear.  

New Minister of Agriculture appointed On December 31, 2010, President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree appointing Sergo Karapetyan,a graduate of the Yerevan Agricultural Institute and the President of Artashat Cannery, Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Armenia. Mr. Karapetyan had been nominated for this post by the Political Council of the "Orinats Yerkir" ("Rule of Law") Party.

On December 16, 2010, the Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Armenia, Mr. Gerasim Alaverdyan held a meeting with a group of international and Armenian specialists involved in the FAO Project for Establishment of a Virtual Extension and Research Information and Communication Network in Armenia. photos