Key Partners - Climate Change and Food Security
FAO’s partnerships in climate change ranges from institutions and organisations engaged in research, developement, awareness raising, capacity building, and policy advocacy. Partnerships involve formal relations with institutions and organisations that play important roles in relevant research, coordination and project implementation at international, regional, national and local. The partner network at the national level consists of key ministries and departments engaged in climate change adaptation, mitigation and food security. Partnerships also involve national or multi-national institutions playing important roles in the area of climate change and sustainable development.
Key partner organisations by country
Country specific list of partner organisations working on climate change related issues can be viewed by selecting individual country on the top left corner.
| Name: | Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council |
| Abbreviation: | BARC |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.barc.gov.bd/ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Bangladesh |
| Note: | BARC is the mandated coordinating body for agricultural research encompassing crops, forestry, fisheries and livestock, including soil. |
| Name: | Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute |
| Abbreviation: | BARI |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Bangladesh |
| Note: | Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute is the largest multi-crop research institute conducting research on a variety of crops, cropping and farming systems, plant protection, soil fertility management and water management, post-harvest handling and processing, farm implements and socio-economics related to production, processing, marketing and consumption. |
| Name: | Bangladesh Forest Research Institute |
| Abbreviation: | BFRI |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.bfri.gov.bd/ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Bangladesh |
| Note: | The BFRI is mandated to conduct forest management and forest products utilization research in Bangladesh. The institute is rich enough to cater to the current information needs of the nation with the database it has created and the technologies generated. The institute is administered by the Ministry of Environment and Forest. |
| Name: | Centre régional Agrhymet |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.agrhymet.ne |
| Language: | French |
| Country: | Niger |
| Note: | Regional Agrhymet Centre, Niamey, Niger |
| Name: | Comité permanent inter états de lutte contre la sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS), Ouagadougou |
| Abbreviation: | CILSS |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.cilss.bf |
| Language: | French |
| Country: | Burkina Faso |
| Note: | Permanent Inter-States Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
| Name: | Department of Agricultural Extension |
| Abbreviation: | DAE |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.dae.gov.bd/ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Bangladesh |
| Note: | DAE, with donor and project funds, disseminates agricultural technologies to the grass-roots level, organises training courses. |
| Name: | Department of Agriculture |
| Abbreviation: | DOA |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.doanepal.gov.np/ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Nepal |
| Note: | The Department of Agriculture (DOA) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MOAC) bears overall responsibility for the agricultural growth and development of agriculture sector. |
| Name: | Department of Hydrology and Meteorology |
| Abbreviation: | DHM |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.dhm.gov.np/ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Nepal |
| Note: | DHM has a mandate from Government of Nepal to monitor all the hydrological and meteorological activities in Nepal. The scope of work includes the monitoring of river hydrology, climate, agrometeorology, sediment, air quality, water quality, limnology, snow hydrology, glaciology, and wind and solar energy. |
| Name: | Direction de la Météorologie Nationale du Maroc |
| Abbreviation: | DMN |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.marocmeteo.ma/ |
| Language: | French |
| Country: | Morocco |
| Note: | National Office for Meteorology of Morocco |
| Name: | Direction de la Production Végétale, Ministère de l'Agriculture du Maroc National |
| Abbreviation: | DPV |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.madrpm.gov.ma/ |
| Language: | French |
| Country: | Morocco |
| Note: | Office for Vegetable Production, Ministry of Agriculture of Morocco |
| Name: | Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II |
| Abbreviation: | IAV |
| Language: | French |
| Country: | Morocco |
| Note: | Institute for Agronomy and Veterinary Hassan II |
| Name: | Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Maroc |
| Abbreviation: | INRA |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.inra.org.ma/ |
| Language: | French |
| Country: | Morocco |
| Note: | National Institute for Agronomic Research of Morocco |
| Name: | International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development |
| Abbreviation: | ICIMOD |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.icimod.org/home/ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Nepal |
| Note: | The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is an independent regional knowledge, learning and enabling centre serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas (HKH) – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan – and the global mountain community. |
| Name: | Ministry of Agriculture |
| Abbreviation: | MoA |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.moa.gov.bd/ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Bangladesh |
| Note: | The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) develops agriculture policies, plans, regulations, provide support to develop new agriculture technologies and monitor dissemination. |
| Name: | Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives |
| Abbreviation: | MOAC |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.moacwto.gov.np/index.php |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Nepal |
| Note: | The mission of the Ministry is to modernize agriculture for enhancing productivity, enable and empower the farmers for socioeconomic well-being and promotion of agricultural business in an integrated and sustainable way |
| Name: | Ministry of Environment and Forests |
| Abbreviation: | MoEF |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.moef.gov.bd/ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Bangladesh |
| Note: | Phone numbers and email addresses taken from the ministerial list |
| Name: | Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.most.gov.np/en/index.php |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Nepal |
| Note: | The Ministry was instituted to make coordination amongst all the bodies to perform the functions relating to science and technology in the process of national development and to effectively accelerate the activities relating thereto by creating a conducive environment for the proper development of science and technology |
| Name: | Ministry of Food and Disaster Management |
| Abbreviation: | MoFDM |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.mofdm.gov.bd/ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Bangladesh |
| Note: | The Ministry of Food and Disaster Management (MoFDM) target the range of issues related to Disaster Risk Reduction including climate change adaptation |
| Name: | Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation |
| Abbreviation: | MFSC |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.mofsc.gov.np/index.php |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Nepal |
| Name: | Nepal Agricultural Research Council |
| Abbreviation: | NARC |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.narc.org.np/ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Nepal |
| Note: | The NARC is an apex body for agriculture research in Nepal with the ultimate goal of poverty aleviation with sustainable growth of agriculture production through the developement of appropriate technologies in different aspects of agriculture. |
last updated: Saturday, May 24, 2008