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Bangladesh faced four consecutive natural disasters in 2024 since cyclone Remal to eastern floods which severely impacted farmers and food security, particularly in the agriculture, fisheries, and livestock sectors. Cyclone Remal, which struck Bangladesh on 26 May 2024, was one of the most devastating cyclones to hit Bangladesh in recent years,...

The Bangladesh Forest Department, under the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC), has made a significant step toward forest data transparency by creating metadata, microdata, and supplementary resources from its National Forest Inventory (NFI) publicly available on the Food and Agriculture Microdata (FAM) catalogue developed by the Food...

Dhaka – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held a national-level dissemination workshop to unveil findings of the Climate Change Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (CRVA), highlighting the critical impact of climate change on the country's vital fisheries and aquaculture at Hotel Intercontinental Dhaka on Monday, October...

Dhaka — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is distributing silos and cattle feed to vulnerable livestock families across five districts of Jamuna River basin to mitigate the impacts of monsoon floods. The distribution is part of the project Protecting Livelihoods Assets through Anticipatory Actions in Flood...

Dhaka – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a webinar and a fair to showcase and promote processing and marketing of jackfruit in Bangladesh. Jingyuan Xia, Executive Secretary of the OCOP Secretariat and Wahida Akter, Secretary of Ministry of Agriculture, Chairperson of OCOP National Task...