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23 April 2019
The ‘Green-Ag: Transforming Indian agriculture for global environmental benefits and the conservation of critical biodiversity and forest landscapes’ project seeks to mainstream biodiversity, climate change, and sustainable land management objectives and practices into Indian agriculture. Its overall objective is to “catalyze transformative change for India’s agricultural sector to support achievement...
19 March 2019
The Chairman of the Independent Council of FAO, Mr Khalid Mehboob on his maiden visit to India, interacted with the FAO India team in the New Delhi office. In an interactive session with the FAO India team, Mr Tomio Shichiri, FAO Representative in India, warmly welcomed Mr Mehboob and spoke of...
15 March 2019
Participatory assessment of forest area and its changes through innovative data collection techniques A six days national training workshop is being organized in Dehradun, Uttrakhand from 11-16 March 2019 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Forest Survey of India (FSI) for the Global Forest...
11 March 2019
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) and National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) with FAO have developed a project on ‘Strengthening Agriculture and Allied Sector Contributions to India’s National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP) 2008 and National Biodiversity Targets (NBTs)’. The project is being implemented in the states of Punjab,...
22 February 2019
The first State Steering Committee meeting for the GEF 6 funded, Green Agriculture project was held on 22nd February 2019, at the Secretariat, Government of Uttarakhand. The meeting was chaired by the Agriculture Production Commissioner, Government of Uttarakhand  and attended by various Secretary –level officials of different line Departments. Officials of...