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Among the great challenges the world faces is how to ensure that a growing global population - projected to rise to around 10 billion by 2050 – has enough quality food to meet their nutritional needs for a healthy life. This for a planet experiencing increasing water and land scarcity,...

FAO Myanmar Newsletter Issue 2, 2018

On 11th July 2018, Mr Haoliang Xu, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and Pacific at UNDP officially inaugurated the new UN office in Myanmar’s Capital Nay Pyi Taw in the presence of H.E. U Soe Win, Union Minister, the Ministry of Planning...

The FAO-EU FLEGT Programme is now accepting concept notes from government institutions, civil society, indigenous and tribal peoples, and private sector organisations in countries engaged in Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) with the European Union. Grants up to USD 110 000 are available through the Programme to support ongoing VPA processes...

The video promotes an integrated home garden/nutrition education approach in the framework of the project TCP/MYA/3505 and capture direct experiences of project participants and FAO Staff. Myanmar is increasingly undergoing a trend of urbanization, bringing with it new sets of opportunities and challenges, fundamentally changing the nature of the underlying causes...