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NewsletterNewsletterFAO Bangladesh Newsletter, October 2022 – Issue #7 2022
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No results found.FAO Representative in Bangladesh, Robert D. Simpson, accompanies Agriculture Minister to FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum in Rome. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addresses World Food Day celebration. New five-year Country Programming Framework signed. Huge stockpile of pesticide DDT being sent to Europe for safe disposal after decades in city centre storage. Emergency assitance for farming households affected by severe floods. First Bangladesh veterinary Olympiad. The Ministry of Agriculture, in collaboration with FAO, held a series of regional consultation workshops on investment for agricultural transformation. The Dhaka Food System project has established 12 farmers’ markets across Dhaka with a plan to launch four more. The project also organized a two-week study tour to Bangkok and Melbourne for select government officials to learn abou the cities' food systems. The Meeting the Undernutrition Challenge project, funded by the European Union, in collaboration with the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit, Ministry of Food, is carrying out an assessment which will look at the impact of cash, vouchers, and in-kind assistance (direct food provision) on the quality of diets of the ultra-poor. A major new global climate change report, co-authored by an expert from the FAO country team, Muhammad Arfanuzzaman, paints a grim picture for Bangladesh. FAO has conducted a RIMA study for the first time in Bangladesh. -
NewsletterNewsletterFAO Bangladesh Newsletter, May 2023 – Issue #9 2023
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No results found.A closing workshop was held for the Meeting the Undernutrition Challenge (MUCH) project which over eight years has greatly advanced food and nutrition security in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA), supported by FAO, announced the successful drafting of 11 200 food standards harmonized with Codex, the international food code. The Secretary-General of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paul Huijts, and the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Bangladesh, Anne van Leeuwen, visited a fresh food market in Dhaka, considered as a model for Bangladesh. FAO held a workshop to mark the completion of a UN joint programme that examined the impact of the 5F crisis (food, feed, fuel, fertilizer, and finance) in Bangladesh caused by COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) signed a USD 16 million grant financing agreement with the Government of Bangladesh to boost a project aimed at promoting climate resilience and diversifying agriculture. FAO will provide technical assistance to the Diversified Resilient Agriculture for Improved Food and Nutrition Security (RAINS) project. Potato exports from farmers supported by FAO continue to grow, as producers came together to celebrate another year of success. Four producer co-operatives joined the fourth annual potato export inauguration in Rangpur – the country’s main potato growing region. FAO introduced to Bangladesh a tailored and proven accounting platform for farmers. Known as the FAO MicroBanking System (or MBWin), it improves the efficiency of banking operations in rural areas, in particular by lowering transaction costs. It is used by 585 financial institutions across 21 countries, serving around four million beneficiaries. -
NewsletterNewsletterFAO Bangladesh Newsletter, September 2023 – Issue #10
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No results found.It is a quarterly newsletter published by FAO Bangladesh office, targetting the external audience especially the donors. It contains various events and activities that was organized by FAO Bangladesh office promoting the project milestones and achievements.
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BookletCorporate general interestEmissions due to agriculture
Global, regional and country trends 2000–2018
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No results found.The FAOSTAT emissions database is composed of several data domains covering the categories of the IPCC Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector of the national GHG inventory. Energy use in agriculture is additionally included as relevant to emissions from agriculture as an economic production sector under the ISIC A statistical classification, though recognizing that, in terms of IPCC, they are instead part of the Energy sector of the national GHG inventory. FAO emissions estimates are available over the period 1961–2018 for agriculture production processes from crop and livestock activities. Land use emissions and removals are generally available only for the period 1990–2019. This analytical brief focuses on overall trends over the period 2000–2018. -
Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021
Transforming food systems for food security, improved nutrition and affordable healthy diets for all
2021In recent years, several major drivers have put the world off track to ending world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. The challenges have grown with the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures. This report presents the first global assessment of food insecurity and malnutrition for 2020 and offers some indication of what hunger might look like by 2030 in a scenario further complicated by the enduring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also includes new estimates of the cost and affordability of healthy diets, which provide an important link between the food security and nutrition indicators and the analysis of their trends. Altogether, the report highlights the need for a deeper reflection on how to better address the global food security and nutrition situation.To understand how hunger and malnutrition have reached these critical levels, this report draws on the analyses of the past four editions, which have produced a vast, evidence-based body of knowledge of the major drivers behind the recent changes in food security and nutrition. These drivers, which are increasing in frequency and intensity, include conflicts, climate variability and extremes, and economic slowdowns and downturns – all exacerbated by the underlying causes of poverty and very high and persistent levels of inequality. In addition, millions of people around the world suffer from food insecurity and different forms of malnutrition because they cannot afford the cost of healthy diets. From a synthesized understanding of this knowledge, updates and additional analyses are generated to create a holistic view of the combined effects of these drivers, both on each other and on food systems, and how they negatively affect food security and nutrition around the world.In turn, the evidence informs an in-depth look at how to move from silo solutions to integrated food systems solutions. In this regard, the report proposes transformative pathways that specifically address the challenges posed by the major drivers, also highlighting the types of policy and investment portfolios required to transform food systems for food security, improved nutrition, and affordable healthy diets for all. The report observes that, while the pandemic has caused major setbacks, there is much to be learned from the vulnerabilities and inequalities it has laid bare. If taken to heart, these new insights and wisdom can help get the world back on track towards the goal of ending hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition in all its forms. -
Book (stand-alone)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018
Building climate resilience for food security and nutrition
2018New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Updated estimates show the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to prevailing levels from almost a decade ago. Although progress continues to be made in reducing child stunting, over 22 percent of children under five years of age are still affected. Other forms of malnutrition are also growing: adult obesity continues to increase in countries irrespective of their income levels, and many countries are coping with multiple forms of malnutrition at the same time – overweight and obesity, as well as anaemia in women, and child stunting and wasting. Last year’s report showed that the failure to reduce world hunger is closely associated with the increase in conflict and violence in several parts of the world. In some countries, initial evidence showed climate-related events were also undermining food security and nutrition. This year’s report goes further to show that climate variability and extremes – even without conflict – are key drivers behind the recent rise in global hunger and one of the leading causes of severe food crises and their impact on people’s nutrition and health. Climate variability and exposure to more complex, frequent and intense climate extremes are threatening to erode and reverse gains in ending hunger and malnutrition. Furthermore, hunger is significantly worse in countries where agriculture systems are highly sensitive to rainfall, temperature and severe drought, and where the livelihood of a high proportion of the population depends on agriculture. The findings of this report reveal new challenges to ending hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition. There is an urgent need to accelerate and scale up actions that strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity of people and their livelihoods to climate variability and extremes. These and other findings are detailed in the 2018 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World.