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“If we can measure the forest, we will also be able to manage it” said Dr Kamal Uddin Ahmed, Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forest, and also the Chief Guest during his speech on 9 February 2016 at the event launching the USAID-funded FAO project contributing to ‘Strengthening National Forest...

With the participation of major donors and high level policy makers from the government, a national consultation meeting took place on the problem of water-logging in the southwest of Bangladesh on Saturday, 16 January 2016, at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in Dhaka. The southwest region has periodically experienced localized and...

The Government of Bangladesh celebrated International Mountain Day for the third time on 11 December 2015, on the theme of Promoting Mountain Products. Events began with the opening of the Mountain Products Fair on the site of the new building to be developed to house the Ministry of Chittagong Hill...

“New Frontiers of the mind and technology are before us, and if they are pioneered with the same vision, boldness and drive with which the battle against food shortage was fought by Borlaug through the green revolution, we can achieve the Zero Hunger goal sooner than generally considered possible”, said...

With the participation of ultra-poor households, an FAO nutrition training programme has recently started at Gopalpur village of Tala upazilla, funded by FAO project “Adaptive Early Recovery in Water Logged Communities of Satkhira District”.  It will be followed by a number of other activities to build resilience of ultra poor,...