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On 18-20 October, representatives from FAO and CIAT went on a field visit to the High Barind Tract of northwest Bangladesh, an area which faces severe environmental problems due to water scarcity and depletion of groundwater. The area is characterized by low and erratic rainfall coupled with decline in soil...

A three-day training workshop on greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory for the agriculture, forestry and other land use sector was held from 27-29 August 2017 at the Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD). The workshop was organized by the UN-REDD Bangladesh National Programme with the technical support from Mr. Luca Birigazzi, an international...

The Bangladesh UN-REDD Programme organized a third training workshop on REDD+ Forest Reference (Emission) Levels (FREL/FRL) from 16 to 24 August 2017 at the Forest Department, Dhaka. Eleven participants from different units of the Forest Department, SPARSO, DoE and universities were invited to analyse FREL/FRL, and brainstorm on the key...

Public expenditure analysis in the food security and nutrition (FSN) sector is a critical component of the Second Country Investment Plan (CIP2) and contributes to the assessments of other FSN-related national policies and programmes, such as the Second National Plan of Action for Nutrition (NPAN2). The “Consultative Meeting on Public...

The Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of the Ministry of Food and the FAO Meeting the Undernutrition Challenge (MUCH) Project jointly organized, with financial support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the European Union (EU), a “Consultation on the Second Country Investment Plan (CIP2) with...