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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with the support of the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), completed the provision of inputs for the most severe flood affected family farmers to restore agricultural production and livelihoods in southern parts of Myanmar.   The support is provided within the...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is celebrating World Food Day and 75 years of working to achieve a world without hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.  As part of the celebrations, FAO in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MoALI) held a virtual event with...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a human health crisis and a continuing threat to the livelihood of Myanmar’s small scale fishing and aquaculture communities. The FAO/GEF Project on Strengthening the Adaptive Capacity and Resilience of Fisheries and Aquaculture-dependent Livelihoods in Myanmar (FishAdapt) conducted an assessment in its targeted  townships in Yangon South and...

The Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries is participating in the 35th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific. Like most of the region's countries, Myanmar is experiencing disruptions to its food systems and agriculture sector.   "We actively engaged with partners in Myanmar as well as  with...

Under COVID-19 restrictions, FAO’s Emergency Management Centre for Animal Health provided virtual support to Myanmar to develop its LSD preparedness   In December 2019, after monitoring the development of a lumpy skin disease (LSD) event in South Asia, FAO’s Emergency Management Centre for Animal Health (EMC-AH) activated a specific Incident Coordination...