(April 29th 2016) Sustaining the Lebanese government in the dairy sector with the objective of strengthening food safety. This was launched in recent days by the FAO-Lebanon in collaboration with the Minister of Agriculture of Lebanon. The project “Strengthening food safety through improving practices in the dairy sector in of small agricultural businesses”. The project is financed by the Italian Cooperation, an initiative that predicts a series of interventions aiming to organise an adequate method for different processes for the production chain and the processing of milk especially considering hygiene levels. The project aims to focus on groups in the industry that are more vulnerable such as small agricultural businesses and families run that are run by women in the sector, and also aims to provide the beneficiaries adequate equipment that will improve production of traditional dairy goods and workshops for families and farmers and the distribution of small dairy farms, work units, steel milk tanks and kits for the production of milk and dairy goods of high sanitary standards. The beneficiaries of this initiatives, as cited on Beirut’s UTL website, are women run families and small agricultural businesses active in the milk and dairy sector living in the 40 most vulnerable villages in Lebanon. There are approximately 400 families (equivalent to 2,000 beneficiaries) are active in the dairy sector and who will be part of this initiative.