Arab organizations in addition to the APN rejected the intervention of the FAO in the outcomes of the regional forum on " Agriculture and Food Security and the Sustainability of Production Systems”, which was held in Tunisia and organized by the Tunisian Syndicate of Farmers (SYNAGRI) on February 4th and 5th in 2014. 

The forum was supported by the FAO in order to get consensus from 35 civil society representatives from 13 Arab countries about core issues related to food security and agriculture.

The organizations insisted on its recommendations, which included an item on the right of the Palestinians to water in addition to a right to the freedom to elect a committee to represent its recommendations at the Regional Conference, which was held in Rome later on in the period between the 24th and 28th of February in 2014.

The committee elected at the forum included Mohammed Qteishat from APN, Riwa Kahaleh from the Arab Network for Food Sovereignty,  and Laith Ibn Bishr from SYNAGRI.Mohammed Qteishat presented a paper on strengthening the contribution of agricultural professional organizations in the development of agricultural policies and led the task team responsible for drafting the final recommendations of the conference.

Nutritionist Riwa Kahaleh chaired the closing session of the forum which was about “Rural Women and Ways to Strengthen Food Security."

Forum participants came out with a set of recommendations to include an emphasis on equitable exploitation of water resources, in particular the common ones, and the need to improve working conditions of women in terms of social and material as an essential partner and an important source to supplement the family income.

It also stressed the need to train producers on ways to minimize losses at all stages of production.