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DocumentOther documentPhilippines and FAO: Achievements and Success Stories 2011
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No results found.The Philippines is one of the 34 charter member nations that founded FAO in Quebec City, Canada on 16 October 1945. The first FAO operations in the Philippines started in 1959 under the auspices of the United Nations Special Fund and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). FAO activities in the Philippines gradually increased over the years, and complemented government’s efforts through technical and development interventions in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, forestry and rural d evelopment. The Philippines has always taken a keen interest in the work of FAO because of its mandate and the country’s strong traditions in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, nutrition and rural development. In view of FAO’s expanding programme in the country, and in order to better serve its target clientele, an FAO Representative Office was established in the Philippines on 1 January 1978. In more than three decades of cooperation between the Philippine government and FAO, a multitude of FAO supported projects have been implemented in the country in close partnerships with the Departments (Ministries) of Agriculture (DA), Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Agrarian Reform (DAR), and Science and Technology (DOST) in addition to a number of state universities and colleges. Coordinating the preparation and implementation of various projects is done through the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), or the central planning agency, to minimize duplication and overlapp ing activities with other multilateral and bilateral donor agencies. Among the past FAO-assisted projects in the Philippines are those on Coconut Research and Development, Multiple-Use Forestry, Aquaculture Development and Training, Soils and Land Resources Appraisal and Training, Agro-Forestry, Forestry Education, Small Farmers Development, Carabao (WaterBuffalo) Research and Development, Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, Integrated Pest Management, Food Security and Nutrition, Control of Animal Diseases, Master Plan for Forestry Development and many others. To date, FAO has implemented a total of 393 national projects, of which 130 were funded by TCP, 99 by UNDP, 114 by Trust Fund, 18 by TeleFood, 5 by Unilateral Trust Fund (UTF), 4 by Freedom from Hunger Campaign, 20 by UNFPA, and 3 are joint programmes funded by UNDP and JICA. Total FAO assistance for all the national projects amounted to around US$102.4 million. In addition, the Philippines also benefitted from other FAO regi onal and inter-regional projects. -
DocumentOther documentTimor-Leste and FAO: Achievements and Success Stories 2011
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No results found.As one of Asia’s smallest and poorest nations, Timor-Leste is relying on international assistance to help build the capacity of the nation. While 90 percent of Timor-Leste’s one million people depend on subsistence farming and fishing to make a living, the country’s infrastructure is poor and its agriculture suffers from frequent drought. The tiny half-island country – the other half belongs to Indonesia – has no industry to speak of and produces hardly anything for export. Annual per capita inc ome is only US$431, and one in three households live below the poverty line. On a more promising note, vast offshore oil and gas fields in the Timor Sea hold great potential for the country. Natural gas could eventually earn as much as US$180 million a year. At present the Petroleum Fund is about US$6 billion. But for now, Timor-Leste is ranked as a lower-middle-income economy. It continues to suffer the after-effects of a decades-long independence struggle that damaged its infrastructure and di splaced thousands of civilians. The country ranks 120th out of 169 countries on the Human Development Index (HDI). FAO has been implementing emergency relief and rehabilitation activities in Timor-Leste since 1999, and established an Emergency Coordination Unit in Dili in 2000. FAO’s emergency activities include food security, bio-security, strengthening animal health services, nutrition, post-harvest management practices, forestry, fisheries and capacity development. Timor-Leste also benefits f rom FAO’s Initiative on Soaring Food Prices (ISFP), a global programme launched in 2008 to assist countries reeling from the rapidly rising prices of food commodities. Total FAO support to Timor-Leste amounts to US$38.5 million through 34 emergency and technical assistance national projects. In addition, Timor-Leste has been a participant in three regional and global programmes from FAO. -
DocumentOther documentMyanmar and FAO: Achievements and Success Stories 2011
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No results found.Myanmar economy did not undergo significant structural changes, even though it experienced different political and economical systems since it independence in 1948. The country is still an agro-based country in which agriculture sector is the backbone of the economy and main stay of rural economy. Some 20 percent of Myanmar’s 48 million people suffer from undernourishment, confirming that the nation has significant work ahead of it if it is to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of reducing the proportion of people suffering from hunger by half by the year 2015. Life expectancy is low at 57 years of age, while child mortality rates are high at about 107 per 1 000 live births. Agriculture in Myanmar is the most important sector of the country’s economy, contributing 42 percent to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Agricultural exports are valued at $379 million a year. The sector supports 70 percent of Myanmar’s labour force. Rice is the major crop, covering about 60 percen t of the country’s total cultivated land area. Rice accounts for 97 percent of total food grain production by weight, and it is one of the main reasons that more than 98 percent of Myanmar’s total water use goes to agriculture. Myanmar became a member of FAO on 11 September 1947, and an FAO Representative Office was opened in 1978. Over the past 30 years, FAO has provided assistance through some 100 national projects and many regional field projects that support crops, livestock, fisheries and f orestry efforts. Projects also cover agriculture and rural investment planning, census, statistics, agricultural research, food and industrial crops, crop processing, food technology, plant protection, and animal health with a total budget of $193 million since 1978. FAO projects in Myanmar are funded from the Organization’s own resources under the Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) while others are funded through donor contributions (e.g. Australia, Austria, Italy, Japan, PricewaterhouseCoop ers Charitable Foundation, Sweden, UK-DFID and the UN Central Emergency Response Fund.). The country further benefits from a number of FAO assisted regional and global programmes, including emergency operations and rehabilitation programmes, and the Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases (EMPRES).
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