Bilateral meeting with The Honourable Birendra Prasad Mahato, Minister of Forests and Environment of Nepal

Kathmandu – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and The Honourable Birendra Prasad Mahato, Minister of Forests and Environment of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal met during the Director-General’s visit to Kathmandu.

The Minister highly appraised the jointly launched Country Programming Framework (CPF) for 2023-2027, which reflects Nepal’s key priorities, including sustainable natural resource management, climate resilience and disaster risk reduction.

The Director-General noted that, as both a Least Developed Country and a Landlocked Developing Country, Nepal has tremendous geographic diversity that ranges from alluvial plains in the south to high Himalayan Mountains in the north. QU further stated that FAO is willing to support Nepal to achieve better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life, and to address the impacts of the climate crisis.

The pair discussed implementation of the country’s first-ever Green Climate Fund (GCF) project for increasing resilience in the Churia Region, considered as a flagship project for the entire Asia-Pacific region.

FAO also supports Nepal with the implementation of the project aimed at ecosystem restoration, with a strong focus on forest ecosystems in the country’s Churia Region.