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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...

Specialists in human health, animal health and the environment develop roadmap to tackle priority diseases/syndromes.

In flood-affected rural areas, poorest people face highest food insecurity risk and livestock and fisheries sectors yet to recover from severe damage More than seven months after Cyclone Komen caused widespread flooding in Myanmar, poor rural communities are still enduring increased levels of food insecurity, according to a UN report released...