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A programme Agreement was signed today 28 March 2018 at the Economic Relations Division (ERD), Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka between the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to implement the EAF Nansen programme titled “Supporting the Application of the...

Informing local communities of the importance of the Bangladesh Forest Inventory (BFI) is crucial to facilitate its implementation. For this, meetings are organized with local community groups, especially in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs).In CHTs, seven information sharing meetings were held from 5 to 14 February 2018 to inform local...

Forests and trees offer multiple benefits to the cities of Bangladesh and FAO’s expertise is well suited for supporting city greening efforts. To celebrate and recognize the important of urban forestry, FAO participated in the seminar 'Forests for sustainable cities’ on the 2018 International Day of Forests (IDF). The seminar...

More than 500 host community farming families in Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh, will soon be able to grow new varieties of crops to eat and sell thanks to agricultural machinery and seeds distributed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The distributions, conducted on 25 and 27...

FAO in Bangladesh, in collaboration with the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and the Statistics Division of FAO Headquarters in Rome (ESS), organized a sub-regional workshop on “Sustainable Development Goal Target 2.1 for South Asia: ‘Monitoring Food Security in the Context of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda’” on 4-6 March...