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The annual UN-FAO publication on ‘State of Food Insecurity (SOFI), 2015 has just been released – in addition, a regional summary has been prepared comparing Asia and the Pacific country achievements of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets set in 2000 of reducing the extreme poverty rate in half by 2015,...

Staff from FAO Headquarters (HQ), FAO Bangladesh, Department of Fisheries and Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) visited Dumuria and Fakirhat Upazila under Khulna and Bagerhat district in Southern Bangladesh on 22-23 May 2015. The visit was linked with FAO/Department of Fisheries project “Building trade capacity of small-scale shrimp and prawn farmers...

The Government of Bangladesh played host to a large contingent of foreign delegates (over 75 people from 43 countries and 13 different international organisations) during a High-Level Meeting on South-South and Triangular Cooperation in the Post 2015 Development Agenda: Financing for Development in the South and Technology Transfer in Dhaka...

For the first time, Bangladeshi mangoes are to be available in a major UK supermarket.  This is thanks to the efforts of the farmers in several mango producing districts (Satkhira, Chapainawabganj and Rajshahi) who have been working to improve their quality, supported by the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) to...

Around 120 officials from the Government, development partners and research institutes participated in the consultation on the Zero Draft of the Country Investment Plan (CIP) for Environment, Forestry and Climate Change (EFCC), organized by the USAID-funded project contributing to “Strengthening the Environment, Forestry and Climate Change Capacities of the Ministry...