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The Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) organized an inception workshop on Strengthening capacity for monitoring environmental emissions under the Paris Agreement with the technical support of FAO on 10 February 2019 at Ban Bhaban, Agargaon, Dhaka. Monitoring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is crucial to support climate change...

Agriculture plays a vital role in Bangladesh economy contributing more than 15% to its national GDP during 2017-18 Fiscal Year.  While the agricultural production has more than tripled during the last two decades, soils in several geographic locations have been degraded and polluted by several factors. World Soil Day (WSD)...

The Economic Relations Division, Ministry of Finance and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations signed an agreement to implement a project titled “Support for Modelling, Planning and Improving Dhaka’s Food System”. The Netherlands Government is providing financial support of USD 12.5 million equivalent BDT 104 core as...

On 4–5 November 2018, FAO and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointly organized “High-level Technical Consultation on Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) Follow Up Actions” and “Technical Symposium on Nutrition-Sensitive Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)” in collaboration with the Ministry of Food, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry...

Forests provide fundamental services to our societies and a better understanding of them is necessary to ensure their sustainable management. The information needed in this process requires collecting it from multiple sources and then managing and analyzing it to provide timely results to decision makers. New technologies are available to...