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The theme of the Intational Day of Forests for this year - “Forests and Climate Change” - highlighted forest-based solutions to address climate change mitigation and adaptation, and more broadly forests and sustainable development. At a seminar organised by the Forest Department, and attended by both the Minister of the...

Government of Bangladesh (GoB) and FAO-UN, Bangladesh signed a key project document on “Strengthening National Forest Inventory and Satellite Land Monitoring System in support of REDD+”, to build the capacity of the Bangladesh Forest Department to monitor the state of forest resources in the country.  The global REDD+ programme (Reducing...

Mr Mike Robson, FAO Representative in Bangladesh and his team visited Chittagong Regional Medical Supplies Store for talks with the high-level government officials on Monday, 2 March 2015 on the disposal of an old stock of  500 MT DDT.  The ADG of Department of Environment, Mr Hashmi, and Mr Mark...

Around 50 people from a wide range of food safety stakeholders took part in the first training session organized by the new Bangladesh Food Safety Authority hosted by the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of the Ministry of Food, from 23-26 February. The training covered “Awareness on ISO 22000:2005 Food...

A team from FAO Bangladesh led by Mr. Mike Robson, FAOR in Bangladesh along with Ms. Sultana Afroz, Joint Secretary, Economic Relations Division (ERD), met Ms. Ismat Ara Sadique, Hon’ble State Minister, Ministry of Public Administration at the request of the State Minister, herself to discuss about the issue of...