A total of twenty community forestries established under the Sustainable Cropland and Forest Management in Priority Agro-ecosystems of Myanmar (SLM project) become operational. The SLM project continues its support for those community forestries by establishing nurseries and personal safety equipment and tools in Delta and distributing seedlings to those community [...]
FAO projects in Myanmar and the Philippines use technology to boost sustainability and resilience 04 JULY 2018, PAMPANGA, PHILIPPINES - A team of experts from the Department of Agricultire work together with Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations in using drones in gathering visual data on recently [...]
FAO/Soe Moe Naing For farmers in Myanmar, the COVID-19 pandemic is adding to growing unpredictability, in a sector already struggling to cope with the effects of climate change. The UN is working closely with the country’s government to help them to adapt and thrive. U Cho, a sixty-one-year-old farmer from [...]
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 include the public concerns in the final amendment of forest [...]
SLM-GEF project established training for concerned staffs from DoA and DAR for the use of basic ICT tools and capturing good practices through video and descriptive documents. The farmer channel is mainly broadcasting agriculture program, CSA programme and other practices. And the farmer channel is disseminating to the wide of [...]
A six-week course in partnership with UNITAR begins November 13, features leading global experts on climate change 13 September 2017 – ‘National Adaptation Plans: Building Climate Resilience in Agriculture’ is the title of the new United Nations’ Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The course is timed to launch in parallel [...]
The workshop brought together 30 staff members of Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and irrigation (MOALI) and Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) working at national level as well as in the 3 Pilot sites of the Project. The workshop started on 7 to 9 August, 2017 in [...]
The Project was officially launched in July 2016 and has since been subject to an inception phase and the early stages of implementation. During the first half of 2017 the project’s managerial structures and work plan have been revised following the findings of the component-wise needs assessments and a series [...]
