FAO in Sri Lanka

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14 December 2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) handed over two specially designed climate resilient fishing boats and 30 modified fish display stalls to the Ministry of Fisheries, in line with FAO's commitment to sustainable development and addressing climate change challenges. The SL20 and SL23 fishing boats, measuring 6.3...
08 December 2023
Sri Lanka has chosen to host the 37th session of the Asia Pacific Regional Conference (APRC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), to be held from 19th to 22nd February 2024 in Colombo. FAO is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international...
20 November 2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) together with the Department of Agriculture and the Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka with funding from the European Union (EU) recently launched a Farmer Field Schools Programme to train 6,000 smallholder paddy farmers across four key rice-growing districts on sustainable...
17 October 2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), marked World Food Day by calling for urgent action towards sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture in Sri Lanka.  In a 2021 report by FAO and...
22 September 2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized practical training sessions for boat builders to improve the safety of small-scale fishing vessels in Sri Lanka. 25 boat builders of small-scale fishing vessels and inspectors of the Department of Fisheries were trained in practical boat building skills for fiberglass...