Myanmar is highly vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather conditions. According to the Global Climate Risk Index, Myanmar ranks among the top three countries most affected by weather related events, which has led to massive displacement of people and the destruction of livelihoods, crops and other food sources. In the recent years, the change […]
Launching of National Climate Smart Agriculture Center
FAO is implementing a project entitled “Sustainable cropland and forest management in priority agro-ecosystem of Myanmar” in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MoNREC) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation (MoALI). The project is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and will run for 5 years – July […]
Descriptive document and Script writing training in Farmer Channel
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 audience in Myanmar. Descriptive document […]
Training of Trainers on Climate Smart Agriculture and Farmer Field School in Labutta
Training of Trainers on Climate Smart Agriculture and Farmer Field School was successfully over on 29 May to 1 June, 2018 at Religious Center in Labutta as arranged instructors and planned agenda as well. This training is attended 29 (20 staff from DoA Labutta, 5 staff from AVSI, 3 participants from FAO (1 Technical Field […]
Training of Trainers on Climate Smart Agriculture and Farmer Field School in Nyaung U 2018
Training of Trainers on Climate Smart Agriculture and Farmer Field School was successfully over on 22 May to 25 May, 2018 at Arthawka Hotel in New Bagan as per the planned agend. A total of 52 participants attended the training i.e. 24 staff from DoA Nyaung U, 1 staff from DAR Nyaung U, 16 staff […]
Training of Trainers on Climate Smart Agriculture and Farmer Field School in Mindat
Training of Trainers on Climate Smart Agriculture and Farmer Field School was successfully over on 9-11 April, 2018 at Mindat Hotel as arranged instructors and planned agenda as well. This training is attended 35 participants as total (18 staff from DoA, Mindat and 8 staff from the DoA Kanpetlet, 5 staff from COLDA, 1 Technical […]
Farmer Field Day Events in Dry Zone, Nyaung U and Kyaukpadaung
Farmer Field day event is held at Kokko Gone village in Nyaung U Township on 27th February 2018 and Khaing Village in Kyaukpadaung Township on 28th February 2018. There are around 60 farmers join the events in each township. The farmers are coming from different villages near the event holding village. 27th February 2018 The […]
National Inception workshop for curriculum development in support of building capacity for Sustainable Forest Management
23 November 2017 09:00 - 17:00. The Hotel Amara, Nay Pyi Taw The workshop is to take the first step towards a national SFM capacity building program by bringing the stakeholders together to discuss the long term vision for the curriculum development at MFS and CFDTC. The workshop is placed in The Hotel Amara, Nay [...]
UNDP and FAO join to launch a new online course on climate change and agriculture
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 with the upcoming climate talks […]
Training of Trainers on Climate Smart Agriculture and Farmer Field School in Nyaung U
Training of Trainers on CSA and FFS was successfully conducted from 25 Sep to 27 Sep, 2017 at Arthawka Hotel at New Bagan, Nyaung U. A total of 40 participants attended the training. Daw Mar Mar Cho, Nyaung U Seed Farm Manger DAR, MoALI made opening speech from the government side. From the FAO side […]