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With the aim to improve the knowledge about the status of trees and forest resources in Bangladesh, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Bangladesh Forestry Department supported capacity development activities for strengthening data analysis and modelling. A workshop was organized between 02-06 April 2016...

With a view to provide better information between people, tree and forest resources, a national consultation on ‘Socioeconomic Survey Design for the Bangladesh forest Inventory (BFI)’ was jointly organized by the Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Bangladesh on 28th February 2017...

Food and Agriculture Organization the United Nations (FAO) recently organized a training programme on facilitative leadership to improve cross-sectoral dialogue, planning, and monitoring of investments in environment, forestry and climate change on 20-23 March 2017 at BRAC CDM in Savar, Dhaka. The training – attended by Nineteen (19) participants, including seven...

The Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) and FAO celebrated the International Day of Forests (IDF) on 21 March 2017. A discussion session was held at Hoimonti Auditorium of Bana Bhaban, Agargaon, Dhaka. The event took the IDF theme of 2017 ‘Forests and Energy’ as of particular relevance to Bangladesh as trees...

In February 2017, FAO supported the Bangladesh Forest Department in two parallel activities related to ‘Land Cover Mapping’ in an effort to improve the forest management in the context of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Land Cover Map 2015 in process First activity validated the ‘Land Cover Map 2015’, developed...