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The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization has announced that it has successfully completed emergency life-saving livelihood response that reached some 23 000 people affected by the 2016 floods in Magway Region. This time-critical assistance was made possible through the FAO-lead project, in collaboration with the implementing partners - Myanmar's Heart Development...

Within the framework of FFF’s capacity building and learning program (“pillar 3”), the FFF team in cooperation with the Myanmar Environment Rehabilitation-Conservation Network (MERN) and the Myanmar Forestry Department had organized the second one-week training course on “Sustainable Timber Production and Value Chain Creation” for 31 persons from Community Forestry...

A signing ceremony with fifteen community forestry forest products producers associations (CFPPAs) at village and township level to sign new partnership letters of agreement (LoAs) took place on Friday 10 March, 2017 at the FAO office in Yangón, Myanmar.  Ms. Xiaojie, FAO Representative in Myanmar, U Bo Ni, focal point for...

Six months after floods destroyed planted rice paddy, villagers from  Shwe Hlay are now able to harvest winter crops thanks to the emergency quality seeds distribution that took place in November 2016. The Magway Region in Myanmar’s Dry Zone, where the village is located, was among hardest hit areas in July-August...

The signing ceremony of GEF-FishAdapt project on “Strengthening the adaptive capacity and resilience of fisheries and aquaculture-dependent livelihoods in Myanmar” was held on 1st March 2017 in Nay Pyi Taw. His Excellency Dr. Aung Thu, Union Minister of Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation opened the Signing Ceremony with Ms....