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A workshop on qualitative risk assessment in animal health was organized by FAO’s Myanmar Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) team in Mandalay from 22 to 25 August 2016, with the aim to support the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department (LBVD) in its endeavor to make risk assessment a...

Last year, roughly one of every six fish sold around the world was caught illegally. That number is now poised to drop precipitously, thanks to the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), the world’s first international treaty designed specifically to tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.  Under this new agreement, parties are obliged...

By Kundhavi Kadiresan, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Myanmar is beginning its journey on the road to achieving ‘Zero Hunger’ and there is good reason to be optimistic that the final destination – the eradication of hunger and malnutrition – can...

  A new contribution of USD 4.49 million by the Government of Japan will support FAO’s appeal under the 2016 Humanitarian Response Plan to provide assistance to flood- and conflict-affected communities in Myanmar.  The funding will help more than 12 000 families in two of the poorest states in the country,...

Myanmar had in 2010 the third-highest annual rate of forest reduction, according to the most recent Global Forest Resources Assessment. This report released by the Food and Agriculture reveals the rapid loss of forestry coverage over the past decades in Myanmar. Between 1990 and 2015, the country lost nearly 15 million...