Communities in Ayeyarwady Delta participate in efforts to restore mangrove forests
Approximately three-quarters of Myanmar’s population dwells in rural area and relies on forest resources for daily socio-economic subsistence. Rural communities in the Ayeyarwady Delta region on Myanmar’s southwestern coast are no exception. The Ayeyarwady Delta...
FAO provides teaching supplies and hardware equipment to the Forestry Department
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) handed over teaching aids and hardware support to the Forest Department at the Forest Department headquarters in Nay Pyi Taw in 30 July 2020. “To make agriculture and forestry more productive and...
Farmers willing to use climate-smart agriculture techniques including system of rice intensification in wider scale in Labutta
“I tried one acre of rice growing by using climate-smart agriculture (CSA) techniques including System of Rice Intensification (SRI) this year and am planning to expand in five acres in next year” said a village farmer Daw Yin Yin Htay from Loke Taung village in...
The Final Workshop launching ESFM handbook and DFMPs
The Final Workshop launching the Ecosystem-based Sustainable Forest Management Planning Manual (ESFM PM), Ecosystem-based Sustainable Forest Management Implementation Manual (ESFM IM) and revised District Forest Management Plans (DFMPs) was held on 31st January 2020...
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SLM project supports the workshop on review and upgrade of the curriculum of regular 2-year certificate training program of Myanmar Forest School-Pyin Oo Lwin
The two-day workshop was organized from 18-1-2020 to 19-1-2020 at Kyun Yadanar Hall of Myanmar Forest School, Pyin Oo Lwin. The activity was part of the Letter of Agreement between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and University of...
Participatory Land Use Planning (PLUP)
Objective Adapted from a PLUP model used in the Food Security Project in Lao PDR, Participatory Land Use Planning (PLUP) is used as a mechanism to catalyse on-the-ground adoption of SLM, CSA and SFM models in the pilot sites of the SLM project. To build the capacity...
Growing crops under agro-forestry system with Shaw-Phyu: a learning from Farmer Field School Demonstration Plot
Daw Htay Htay Naing, a farmer from Sin Tat Kyin village in Kyaukpadaung Township, who is not a Farmer Field School (FFS) participant but she is only a neighbor of some FFS participants expressed the following message: “The farmer field school participants from the...
Workshop on Green Ecology in Myanmar
Realizing the impact of climate change as a global and national challenge, FAO has been implementing a GEF funded project “Sustainable Cropland and Forest Management in Priority Agro-Ecosystems of Myanmar (SLM-GEF)” since July 2016, jointly with MoALI and MoNREC to...
Forest Governance in Chin State – how FAO is helping strengthening Legal and Policy Framework
In this regard, FAO has been supporting the Forest Department in organizing the public consultations for draft forest rules in Myanmar. These consultations are conducted to obtain public opinions, to promote people’s awareness in forestry policies and laws, and to...