Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar
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''This page contains information on all aspects of nutrition, including current nutrition needs and activities in Myanmar. The aim of this page is to provide actors across the sector with information that will enable greater coordination, transparency, and efficiency of operations in nutrition. Information on this page includes situation updates and analysis, information on inter-agency coordination and activities under implementation, relevant thematic maps and publications, and also key technical guidelines and resources related to the Nutrition sector...''
Source/publisher:
Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)
Date of publication:
1970-01-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-02-07
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Agriculture, Camp Coordination and Camp Management, Coordination, Education, Food and Nutrition, Health, Logistics and Telecommunications, Protection and Human Rights, Shelter and Non-Food Items, Water Sanitation Hygiene
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Agriculture, Camp Coordination and Camp Management, Coordination, Education, Food and Nutrition, Health, Logistics and Telecommunications, Protection and Human Rights, Shelter and Non-Food Items, Water Sanitation Hygiene
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"The present Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) seeks to mobilize assistance for close to 945,000 people in 2021, in support of the efforts of the Government of Myanmar to aid those affected by humanitarian crises and challenges in different parts of the country. As has been the case for previous years, the HRP places protection at the centre of an inclusive response tailored to the particular needs of the most vulnerable women and men, girls and boys.
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 further demonstrated the critical importance of localization in Myanmar. In 2021, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) will build on the partnerships with national NGOs and local civil society actors that were strengthened as we adjusted to new operational realities in 2020. We will redouble our efforts to put in place robust channels for systematic two-way dialogue and engagement with affected people, and to capitalize on innovations around cash and voucher assistance to further extend our reach.
Humanitarian partners remain committed to contributing to the achievement of durable solutions for displaced people. The National Strategy on Resettlement of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and Closure of IDP Camps provides a key entry point in this regard. Progress on implementation of the Strategy in 2020 was slowed down by COVID-19 but new opportunities are emerging. Our efforts in this regard in 2021 will seek to create new links across the humanitarian-development nexus, while remaining firmly anchored in the perspectives and concerns of displaced people themselves. In Rakhine, the recommendations of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State will continue to be an important reference point for engagement between humanitarian organizations and the Government of Myanmar.
Our dialogue with the authorities will continue to emphasize the importance of humanitarian access, so that needs can be fully assessed and analyzed, humanitarian activities can be prioritized on the basis of those needs, and the impact of our efforts can be effectively monitored. The Myanmar HCT remains committed to working in accordance with the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence, and without any adverse distinction based on region, ethnicity, religion or citizenship status..."
Source/publisher:
OCHA (New York) via Reliefweb (New York)
Date of publication:
2021-01-27
Date of entry/update:
2021-01-27
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Individual Documents
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Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research, Burmese refugees in Bangladesh, Burma: Internal displacement/forced migration of several ethnic groups., Internal displacement/forced migration of Rohingyas, Human rights and education, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Racial or ethnic discrimination in Burma: reports of violations against several groups
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Agriculture, Recovery and Reconstruction
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Myanmar's Department of Agriculture (DoA) recently conducted a series of training sessions to support the capacity development of farmers and technical experts. The training aimed to support and restore the agricultural production and livelihoods of communities affected by the heavy monsoon rains in southern Myanmar.
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Agriculture, Recovery and Reconstruction
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"A total of 214 farmers from communities in Mon and Kayin States and Tanintharyi Region participated in face-to-face training sessions in the following topics.
Good Agricultural Practices: The topics covered in this session included farming practices such as vegetable production, soil fertility management and the proper use of fertilizers to help farmers improve their yields. Participating farmers gained knowledge on practices aimed towards enhancing the production of safe, high quality food, promoting environmentally friendly agricultural practices, and ensuring the welfare of farm workers.
Climate-Smart Agriculture: The training session was designed to help farmers understand how climate-induced shocks affect the agricultural sector and share climate-smart agricultural practices that enable families to improve production in a sustainable manner.
Nutrition: The session covered topics related to basic nutrition including a balanced diet, meal planning, food hygiene, and the special feeding needs of children, women and men.
Improving Knowledge: Post-Monsoon Forums
In relation to strengthening early warning early action systems, FAO and the Myanmar Department of Meteorology and Hydrology organized virtual Post-Monsoon Forums in December 2020 for technical officers from relevant line ministries and agencies to share experiences, challenges and lessons learned during the 2020 southwest monsoon season. Some 200 technical officers participated in the discussions which aimed to review the southwest monsoon seasonal forecasts and seasonal climate and water level forecasts in Mon and Kayin States and Tanintharyi Region. Furthermore, the forums also aimed to solicit feedback from end users on the usability of the forecasts and recommendations to enhance the early warning system in order to respond to potential disasters through early action.
Participants raised recommendations, gaps and challenges such as the need for meteorological information technology training for DoA staff, dissemination of real-time meteorological information, capacity development on collection and storage of meteorological records, installation of weather sensors in townships (where there are no meteorological centers in the region) and strengthened coordination and sharing of meteorological information and forecast reports with the DoA..."
Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (Rome) via "Reliefweb" (New York)
Date of publication:
2021-01-06
Date of entry/update:
2021-01-07
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Individual Documents
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Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research, Agricultural Land, Commodities - agricultural products, Adaptation to climate change, Sustainable agriculture - Burma/Myanmar, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Sustainable/alternative development in and for Burma, Urban development
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"• WFP is providing food and nutrition assistance to 34,800 returning migrants placed under quarantine in Kayin, Mon,
Shan, Tanintharyi and Yangon, as requested by the authorities.
Food assistance to returning migrants in Kachin will commence this week.
• WFP continues to operate weekly aid flights connecting Kuala Lumpur to Yangon, allowing humanitarian cargo and personnel to enter Myanmar.
• The price of the four main food commodities in Myanmar declined after the Myanmar New Year and COVID-19 panicbuying subsided, according to the WFP Market Monitor. Situation Update
• According to the Ministry of Health and Sports, there are 233 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Myanmar as of 3 June, including six fatalities.
• To curb the spread of COVID-19, the Government of Myanmar has extended several restrictions, including the suspension of international commercial flights until 15 June. Meanwhile, the Government lifted the restrictions on the gathering of five or more people in five categories, including (i) staff working in government, organizations, companies, factories and workshops; (ii) schools; (iii) meetings and trainings; (iv) eating at restaurants that are allowed to reopen and (v) staff providing services and businesses essential to the public.
• The WFP Market Monitor for May showed a decline in the average prices of the four main food commodities in Myanmar compared to April. This reflected a normalizing of purchasing behaviour after the Myanmar New Year holidays, and an apparent end to COVID-related panicbuying. WFP will continue to monitor trends..."
Source/publisher:
WFP (World Food Programme)
Date of publication:
2020-06-04
Date of entry/update:
2020-06-04
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WFP (World Food Programme), Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
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"WFP continues its emergency food and nutrition assistance to 7,500 migrant returnees in quarantine centres, at the request of local authorities.
• WFP is introducing remote monitoring in its operational areas to track the food and nutrition security situation of WFP-supported beneficiaries.
• WFP is chartering a series of flights connecting Yangon to Kuala Lumpur for humanitarian workers and cargo.
• WFP is promoting the use of its newly established Consolidation Hub in Guangzhou, China to humanitarian partners for storing and forwarding COVID-19 related humanitarian cargo.
Situation
• According to the Ministry of Health and Sports, there are 146 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Myanmar as of 27 April, including five deaths.
• To contain the spread of COVID-19, the Government of Myanmar has issued a nationwide order that restricts gatherings of five or more people. A curfew order has also been imposed until further notice in nine out of 14 states and regions in Myanmar, including the capital Nay Pyi Taw and the commercial hub Yangon..."
Source/publisher:
World Food Programme (WFP) (Rome) via reliefweb (New York)
Date of publication:
2020-04-28
Date of entry/update:
2020-04-28
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"Today, the National Nutrition Centre of the Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health and Sports and UNICEF presented Frameworks of Action for Complementary Feeding and Maternal Nutrition at an event that included participants from several ministries including the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement and Ministry of Education, as well as nutrition development partners in Myanmar.
The Frameworks of Action are a result of renewed regional efforts made in six ASEAN countries, including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Myanmar to improve both child complementary feeding and maternal nutrition in the effort to address the triple burden of malnutrition, which includes undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and overweight and obesity. In each of the six countries, a comprehensive landscape exercise was conducted, including the review of key global, regional and country level findings to assess the current situation of children’s diet and maternal nutrition and identify relevant policy and programmatic opportunities. The analysis also included UNICEF’s recent flagship report, the 2019 State of the World’s Children (SOWC) which focuses on nutrition.
The SOWC Report and Myanmar’s landscaping exercise on maternal nutrition and complementary feeding show that poor eating and feeding practices start from the very beginning. Two in five pregnant women (40 per cent) and one in three (30 per cent)[1] of reproductive age women in Myanmar have iron deficiency anaemia, and anaemia during pregnancy can lead to premature birth and low-birth. In addition, only half of children under six months of age in Myanmar are exclusively breastfed– a practice that is protective against malnutrition and poor health, and 39 per cent of those children are introduced to complementary foods too early.
“While the country has done a lot to improve nutrition over the past decade, as seen in the reduction of childhood stunting from 35 per cent in 2009 to 27 per cent in 2017, more can be done particularly in improving the nutrition of pregnant women and the diets that young children consume. Additional focus in these areas will help us to achieve further sustained reductions in malnutrition”, said Dr. Lwin Mar Hlaing, Acting Director of the National Nutrition Centre..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Health and Sports (Myanmar) and UNICEF (Myanmar) via reliefweb (New York)
Date of publication:
2020-02-16
Date of entry/update:
2020-02-17
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Children
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"Amid fighting between Myanmar and Arakan Army (AA) forces in northern Rakhine state, the global humanitarian organization International Rescue Committee (IRC) said it has decided to end its food program in the state on account of the government’s restrictions on staff movements.
On Jan. 6, the IRC ended its Tat Lan program that provided sustainable food security and improved nutrition and livelihoods to villages in Rakhine’s Myebon, Pauktaw, Kyaukphyu, and Minbya townships.
An announcement by the organization said the program ran for more than five years and had provided livelihood and food security to more than 56,000 people, but that the Rakhine state government instructed it to cease operations in 2018.
IRC staffers were denied travel permission because they were recruiting journalists, said Win Myint, Rakhine minister of municipal affairs.
“They were recruiting the journalists, [and] we didn’t know what their intention was,” he said. “This was something inappropriate. These activities were not include in a memorandum of understanding. That’s why, we stopped the operations.”..."
Source/publisher:
"Radio Free Asia (RFA)" (USA)
Date of publication:
2020-01-09
Date of entry/update:
2020-01-09
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Individual Documents
Category:
Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Food Security and displacement in Burma, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar
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"Myanmar government and the World Food Programme (WFP) signed a Letter of Understanding (LoU) for food security in the country, according to the Information Ministry on Saturday.
To implement the WFP Country Strategic Plan (2018-2022), the LoU was signed on Friday by Director General U Than Aung Kyaw of Foreign Economic Relations Department under the Ministry of Planning and Finance and Stephen Anderson, country director and resident representative of WFP-Myanmar.
With an estimated budget of 310.8 million U.S. dollars, the strategic plan is set to provide access to food for crisis-affected people and vulnerable people in the country's states and regions as well as to improve nutrition for children under 5, the ministry's release said.
It was also learnt that the strategic plan will benefit about 2.79 million people..."
Source/publisher:
"Xinhua" (China)
Date of publication:
2019-12-14
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-14
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"Rakhine: With increased military activity and new displacements, the ongoing armed conflict continued to cause insecurity in the region in October. New internal displacements were reported in Sittwe, Myebon, Minbya and Buthidaung townships.
In northern Rakhine, WFP responded by providing emergency food assistance to 2,000 newly displaced people, complementing the Government’s rice distributions. In addition, WFP continued to assist 97,400 food-insecure people from 176 Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu villages in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships. WFP provided 18,700 children aged 6-59 months and pregnant and lactating women (PLW) with fortified blended food through nutrition interventions in northern Rakhine.
In central Rakhine, WFP’s emergency food assistance reached 3,500 people displaced by the ongoing armed conflict in Kyauk Taw, Minbya, Myebon, Pauk Taw and Sittwe townships. In addition, WFP provided 128,000 food-insecure people with life-saving food and cash assistance. WFP also continued to assist 4,400 of the most vulnerable people from 73 villages in Rathedaung Township with lean- season support. WFP’s nutrition assistance reached 5,200 PLW and 25,000 children aged 6-59 months in central Rakhine.
Kachin: Following relative stability throughout most of this year, armed clashes broke out in Mohnyin Township, though no new displacements were reported. WFP continued to assist 43,000 displaced people in Kachin State with cash-based transfers. WFP also provided cash for six-month food rations to 110 internally displaced people from Bhamo, Momauk and Mansi townships, who decided to return to their home villages. WFP nutrition assistance continued to reach over 1,900 PLW and children aged 6-23 months..."
Source/publisher:
World Food Programme (WFP) (Rome) via reliefweb (New York)
Date of publication:
2019-12-02
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-02
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"For decades, the Rohingya people have been subjected to systematic discrimination, statelessness and targeted
violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar. Over hundreds and thousands of Rohingyas have arrived in Bangladesh,
with significant spikes following violent incidents in 1978, 1991 – 1992, and again in 2016. The largest and most
rapid Rohingya refugee influx was triggered in August 2017.
In a matter of weeks, over 745,000 fled Myanmar – including more than 400,000 children – bringing the current
camp population to more than 911,000. Since the start of the crisis, WFP has rapidly responded to the influx and
since provided food and nutrition access to over a million refugees and host population, alongside facilitating
essential shared services. Over two years into the multifaceted collaborative response, 88 percent of the refugee
population still remain dependent on external-aid..."
Source/publisher:
World Food Programme (WFP) (Rome)
Date of publication:
2019-11-12
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-13
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Individual Documents
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WFP (World Food Programme), Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar
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Nutrition, Malnutrition, Health, Myanmar
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Nutrition, Malnutrition, Health, Myanmar
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"High up in the Thangmual Hills in north-western Myanmar’s Chin State, Nu Lun dreams of her seven-month-old daughter growing up to be strong and clever. Like most mothers, Nu Lun wants the best for her child, but she is unsure about the right way to feed her little one.
Nu Lun lives in a wooden cabin with her baby daughter, husband, mother-in-law and 12-year-old nephew. She buys rice and oil from the market, but most of the family’s food comes from their home garden and farm where her husband works.
To learn about nutrition, Nun Lun attends the local women’s group run by the auxiliary midwife in Tedim. Her mother-in-law also influences her, telling her the things her baby should and should not eat and how to prepare the food.
Nu Lun’s daughter often refuses to eat new foods, struggling with the textures and unable to swallow them. So Nu Lun finds herself reverting to giving her baby girl just breast milk and rice soup.
“They tell us about the extra foods we should give our baby, but my daughter spits them out. They are too coarse for her, so I just give her rice soup and breast,” explains Nu Lun while cooking traditional Chin corn soup for the rest of the family.
Other mothers are apparently also confused about what supplementary foods they should give their babies at what ages. Struggling to understand the food charts, they worry about their children choking..."
Source/publisher:
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2019-10-23
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-10
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Individual Documents
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Food Security in Burma/Myanmar - web searches, specialised groups, reports and statistics, Public Health, Children
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"• Vulnerable communities in Burma lack access to sufficient nutritious food and livelihood opportunities due to poverty, conflict, natural disasters, and movement restrictions. Nearly 30 percent of children younger than five years of age suffer from stunting, a common indicator of chronic malnutrition. In addition, recurring extreme weather events—including cyclones, earthquakes, and floods—often lead to population displacement, destruction of crops, loss of livelihood opportunities, and restricted access to markets, the UN World Food Program (WFP) reports.
• In August 2017, clashes between armed actors and the Government of Burma military, as well as subsequent military operations in Burma’s Rakhine State caused mass population displacement, including many individuals fleeing to Bangladesh. Clashes between the Government of Burma and the Arakan Army in Chin and Rakhine states since December 2018 have resulted in additional population displacement and access restrictions that continue to impede the ability of humanitarian actors to respond to the needs of vulnerable people.
• In Burma’s Kachin, Kayin, Rakhine, and Shan states, nearly 824,000 conflict-affected people are experiencing acute food insecurity and more than 180,000 children and women require life-saving nutrition services, the UN reports. Displaced communities lack access to livelihood opportunities and essential services due to movement restrictions and rely heavily on external assistance to meet their food needs. Lack of access to crisis-affected areas continues to hinder the provision of essential humanitarian assistance..."
Source/publisher:
US Agency for International Development (USA) via Reliefweb (USA)
Date of publication:
2019-10-23
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-24
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Individual Documents
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WFP (World Food Programme), Food Security and displacement in Burma, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar
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"Rakhine: Insecurity continued in September with recurrent skirmishes and new displacements in Sittwe,
Myebon and Minbya townships and various areas in northern Rakhine State.
In northern Rakhine, WFP extended its emergency relief assistance to 4,100 newly displaced people, in addition to 94,800 vulnerable people from 146 Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu villages in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships. WFP also supported the nutrition of 20,300 children aged 24-59 months and pregnant and lactating women (PLW) with fortified blended food in northern
Rakhine. In central Rakhine, a total of 130,600 food-insecure people continued to receive life-saving food or cash assistance from WFP. This included over 2,500 newly displaced people affected by the ongoing armed conflict. In addition, WFP also continued to provide food assistance to 4,400 beneficiaries in Rathedaung Township who are vulnerable to the lean season. WFP’s nutrition assistance reached 5,400 PLW and 24,900 children aged 24-59 months in central Rakhine.
Kachin: WFP continued to assist 43,300 displaced people in Kachin State using cash transfers and Emoney. WFP also supported 234 IDPs from four townships with six months of cash transfers, as they returned to their places of origin. WFP also provided nutrition assistance for 1,930 PLW and children aged 6-23 months.
Shan: WFP regained access to conflict-affected communities in Kokang Self-Administered Zone (except the northernmost part because of the security situation). Ongoing armed clashes in Kutkai, Nant San and Kyaukme townships caused the new and temporary displacement of 1,000 people.
Emergency relief distributions continued to reach 7,100 displaced people from northern Shan State and 3,200 people in conflict-affected villages of the KoKang SelfAdministered Zone. WFP provided nutrition assistance for 2,300 PLW and children aged 6-23 months across Shan State..."
Source/publisher:
World Food Programme (WFP) (Italy) via Reliefweb (USA)
Date of publication:
2019-09-30
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-24
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WFP (World Food Programme), Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Food Security and displacement in Burma
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"Myanmar Vice President U Henry Van Thio has called for working towards the production of food safe for consumption and the development of living standard in rural areas to properly feed the growing population and nurture the future generation into healthy and able-bodied citizens.
The vice president made the call at a function in Nay Pyi Taw Wednesday to mark the World Food Day, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation Thursday.
"Such a monumental task required the assistance of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the effective implementation of government policies with public cooperation," he said.
Only an absence of hunger can bring about nutritional sufficiency and robust health and can elevate education and drive socio-economic development, he added.
While Myanmar was receiving international assistance to meet the development goals, he reminded that Myanmar people must be the main drivers for change..."
Source/publisher:
"Xinhua" (China)
Date of publication:
2019-10-17
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-17
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Individual Documents
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Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Rural development in Burma/Myanmar
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"With frequent floods, landslides, cyclones and other natural hazards, Myanmar is extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which lead to massive population displacements and destruction of livelihoods, crops and other food sources. It ranks 3rd out of the most affected countries in the last two decades since 1998, according the 2019 Global Climate Risk Index.
The humanitarian situation in Myanmar remains fragile. In Rakhine State, more than 140,000 people, mainly Rohingya Muslims, remain internally displaced following several waves of inter -communal violence in 2012, with severe restrictions of movement and limited access to livelihoods, health care, education and other basic social services. The Government’s security operations in August 2017 followed by attacks on border guard posts resulted in 700,000 people, mostly Rohingya Muslims, fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh and exacerbated the food security and overall humanitarian situation of the remaining population. An escalation of fighting since 2018 in Rakhine State between the Arakan Army and the Myanmar military, as well as the intensification of ethnic armed conflict in Kachin and Shan states since 2011, has further contributed to instability. An estimated 823,600 people living in conflict-affected areas are vulnerable to food insecurity. More than 240,000 remain internally displaced with limited access to farmland and other livelihood opportunities..."
Source/publisher:
World Food Programme via Reliefweb
Date of publication:
2019-06-22
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-05
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WFP (World Food Programme), Burma: Internal displacement/forced migration of several ethnic groups., Food Security - Specialised organisations and mechanisms, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar
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"Owners and representatives of more than 30 small and medium agri-food enterprises from Myanmar joined the Food Safety Learning Event on New Product Labeling Guidelines for Processed Agri-food held on September 26. Organized under Mekong Institute’s Food Safety Project with the support of the New Zealand Aid Programme, the one-day event sought to serve as a platform to present the updated food labeling guidelines in Myanmar as well as discuss opportunities and challenges in enforcing these new requirements.
In her welcome remarks, Ms. Maria Theresa Medialdia, Director of MI’s Agricultural Development and Commercialization Department, highlighted that Myanmar, just like its neighboring ASEAN countries, still heavily relies on its agriculture sector. Many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across the region need further support to build their knowledge and skills to produce more high value products. Ms. Medialdia noted that proper food labeling is important as it ensures that crucial product information are provided, ultimately benefitting consumers and other key actors in the food supply chain. Aside from improving food quality and safety, instituting accurate and attractive product labels can strengthen the competitiveness of food businesses, especially among agri-food SMEs.
U Ye Htut Naing, Director of the Ministry of Commerce’s Department of Consumer Affairs, was also present to discuss the updated product labeling regulations outlined in the Chapter 18 of the Consumer Protection Law 2019. One of the key focus areas of the new law is promoting stronger compliance on appropriate product labeling, especially among agri-food enterprises. After the presentation, local food safety experts and business sector representatives shared their perspectives on the new regulations as well as on Myanmar SMEs’ potentials, problems, and needs in improving product quality and safety. Among those in the panel were U Thin Maung Myint of the Myanmar Food Processors and Exporters Association; Dr. Hla Aung of Myanmar Fruit, Flower, and Vegetable Producers and Exporters Association; as well as Daw Tin Swe Aye and Daw Win Win Kyi of the Myanmar Food Science and Technology Association..."
Source/publisher:
"Mekong Institute" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2019-09-27
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-02
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"Rakhine: New small internal displacements were reported during August due to the ongoing armed conflict. In northern Rakhine State, WFP’s emergency relief assistance continued to reach 97,700 conflict-affected people including 1,900 newly displaced people from 165 Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu villages in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships. In addition, WFP reached over 7,800 children under 5 years and pregnant and lactating women (PLW) through nutrition interventions.
In central Rakhine State, WFP continued to assist 110,800 food-insecure people including 2,200 who were newly displaced through emergency relief food assistance. In addition, WFP extended its lean season support to over 4,400 most vulnerable people in Rathedaung Township.
WFP’s nutrition assistance reached 5,200 PLW and 24,600 children under five years of age.
Kachin: WFP provided emergency food assistance to 43,700 displaced and flood-affected people in Kachin State using cash and E-Money transfers. Over 1,860 PLW and children under 2 received nutrition assistance from WFP.
Shan: Armed clashes have flared up in Shan State since mid-August causing over 9,000 temporary internal displacements. Urgent needs of the displaced people were covered by the assistance from the Government and local well-wishers. WFP emergency relief distributions continued to support 7,300 displaced populations from northern Shan State. Hampered by the armed clashes,
WFP could not reach about 8,000 targeted people in conflict-affected villages of the KoKang Self-Administered Zone. Over 1,400 PLW and children under 2 received nutrition assistance in Shan State..."
Source/publisher:
World Food Programme (WFP) (Italy) via Reliefweb
Date of publication:
2019-09-26
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-27
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Individual Documents
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WFP (World Food Programme), Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Public Health, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Kachin State, Shan State
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"At a charming Kayan restaurant overlooking Yangon’s Pazundaung Creek, the waiter uses a cleaver to crack open a clay mound. He extracts a bamboo-wrapped chicken, dripping in its own juices. It’s been roasted over coals for eight hours – a way of cooking that Kayan people developed for their overnight hunting trips. When they return to camp, the chicken is ready to eat.
Myanmar is divided into 14 states and regions with more than 135 ethnic groups. Fresh ingredients from Rakhine’s coasts, Kayah’s forests and Kachin’s mountains are used in the distinct ethnic cuisines.
But outside Myanmar, you’d be hard-pressed to find an immigrant-owned Burmese restaurant that serves something other than Bamar (Burmese) or Shan food, the two largest ethnic groups. If you are in Yangon, however, you can get a taste of Kayan, Kachin, Mon and Rakhine culture without visiting these far-flung locales.
“The hunters use clay so the heat is evenly and slowly distributed. It keeps the monkeys from devouring it, too,” says Zay Yar Min, owner of Vista Do Rio Kayan restaurant..."
Source/publisher:
"South China Morning Post" (Hong Kong)
Date of publication:
2019-09-06
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-19
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"The food security situation in the Dry Zone has improved compared to a year ago. Overall, 17
percent of households are severely food insecure, 24 percent moderately and 59 percent food
secure. In the areas covered in both 2009 and 2010, the share of severely food insecure households
decreased by 15 percent.
Households were able to enhance both food consumption and food access. In 2010, 10 percent of
households had poor food consumption compared to 21 percent in 2009 in the areas assessed in
both years. The share of households with an acceptable diet has increased from 36 to 58 percent.
Households with poor food access who are depending on unreliable food sources decreased from 40
to 32 percent.
The situation has improved across the Dry Zone. However, food insecurity levels remained high
among households in Zone B, which is characterized by poor access to land and physical access to
markets. Households relying on wood/bamboo cutting or casual labour as well as female headed
households and those with children under-5 are more vulnerable to food insecurity compared to
other groups.
Agriculture is an important factor contributing to improved food security in the Dry Zone. Generally,
farming households are amongst the most food secure households. They were able to benefit from
relatively improved crop conditions compared to the previous year and increased marketing
opportunities. Generally, there has been an increase in the area cultivated. In 2009, 40 percent of
farming households cultivated a plot below subsistence level (< 2 acres), in 2010 the share was only
22 percent..."
Source/publisher:
WFP (World Food Programme)
Date of publication:
2011-02-00
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2019-08-30
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Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Combatting food insecurity in Burma, Smallholder farming and farmers in Burma/Myanmar, Sustainable agriculture - Burma/Myanmar, Rice, WFP (World Food Programme)
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The Myanmar Government and the UN’s agriculture agency signed on Tuesday a multi-year agreement that will create conditions to help improve nutrition and food security in the south-east Asian country, while safeguarding and sustainably managing the use of
Description:
"“The agriculture sector has a major role to play in addressing [the] sustained rates of food insecurity and malnutrition through agricultural diversification and rural income generation,” Kundhavi Kadiresan, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said at the launch of the accord in Nay Pyi Taw.
The Country Programming Framework (CPF) was signed by U Than Aung Kyaw, Director General, Foreign Economic Relations Department (FERD), Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations (MIFER) and Ms Xiaojie Fan, FAO Representative in Myanmar.
The launch of the CPF follows intensive consultations and agreements with the Ministry of Planning and Finance and relevant line ministries, civil society organizations (CSOs), the private sector and other development partners.
Specifically, the CPF intends to help the Government achieve three primary goals.
Enhanced food security, nutrition and food safety
Strengthened governance and sustainable management of land, forests, water resources and ecosystems
Enhanced resilience of local communities and farming households to natural and humanitarian disasters, climate change and transboundary and emerging infectious disease risks.
Despite having reached a state of self-sufficiency in staple foods, food insecurity, particularly seasonal food insecurity, remain a concern across Myanmar, which risks being worsened due to climate and weather-related shocks and instances of social instability..."
Source/publisher:
"UN News"
Date of publication:
2019-02-19
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-25
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"25,000 newborns delivered and managed by Emergency Paediatric Care Programme teams
108,611 children and women in conflict-affected areas utilized antenatal care, delivery care, post-natal visits and emergency referrals
928 patients with severe and complicated illnesses received referral support in Kachin, Rakhine,
Shan States
3749 Basic Health Staff and clinical staff from Rakhine, Magway and Kachin States trained in Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition services
Our work to improve child and maternal health and nutrition helps save lives
Child survival and good health are the foundations of individual wellbeing and national prosperity. UNICEF is providing vital and holistic support to significantly improve the health and boost the nutrition condition of children in Myanmar. All our work is firmly anchored in a health systems strengthening approach with a focus on children with the greatest needs.
How we help: Our comprehensive approach boosts results
Ending preventable newborn and child deaths: Myanmar still has a high under-five children mortality rate of 50 per 1,000 live births. Vulnerability is highest among poorer families, and in disaster-prone and conflict-affected areas. Seven out of 15 states and regions contribute to 75 per cent of underfive deaths. Newborn deaths (in the first month of life) contribute to half of all child deaths, with most occurring during delivery and the child’s first day of life. Low delivery in health institutions (37 per cent) and low skilled birth attendance (60 per cent) contribute to this..."
Source/publisher:
"Reliefweb" via UNICEF
Date of publication:
2019-08-16
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-17
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Individual Documents
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Children, HIV/AIDS - international, regional and thematic material, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Public Health
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"Across Myanmar’s central, rural dry zone, communities have markedly improved their lives with the support of Pact and its partners, in areas including health, food security, livelihoods, access to credit and renewable energy, and water, sanitation and hygiene. Pact’s unique, integrated model – one focused on making holistic, systemic change and building strong local institutions and decision-making – means villages lead their own development.
Pact and its partners implemented the Shae Thot project in Myanmar from 2011 to 2018. The project was supported by USAID and paid for by the American people..."
Source/publisher:
Pactworld
Date of publication:
2018-06-08
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-03
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Individual Documents
Category:
Rural development in Burma/Myanmar, Water resources of Burma/Myanmar, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar
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Description:
"People living in Myanmar's Dry Zone are facing the impact of climate change on their lives. The project, Addressing Climate Change Risks on Water Resources and Food Security in the Dry Zone of Myanmar aims to reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity of the dry zone communities through improved water management, crop and livestock adaptation programme in five of the most vulnerable townships of Myanmar’s Dry Zone. The Adaptation Fund project is being implemented by UNDP in collaboration with the Government of the Union of Myanmar..."
Source/publisher:
UNDP Myanmar
Date of publication:
2017-03-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-02
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Climate Change - Migration Regional, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, UNDP - Burma/Myanmar, Water security in Burma/Myanmar, Urban development, Smallholder farming and farmers in Burma/Myanmar
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Description:
"People living in Myanmar's Dry Zone are facing the impact of climate change on their lives. The project, Addressing Climate Change Risks on Water Resources and Food Security in the Dry Zone of Myanmar aims to reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity of the dry zone communities through improved water management, crop and livestock adaptation programme in five of the most vulnerable townships of Myanmar’s Dry Zone. The Adaptation Fund project is being implemented by UNDP in collaboration with the Government of the Union of Myanmar..."
Source/publisher:
UNDP Myanmar
Date of publication:
2017-03-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-02
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Individual Documents
Category:
UNDP - Burma/Myanmar, Climate Change - Migration Burma/Myanmar, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Sustainable/alternative development in and for Burma, Water security in Burma/Myanmar
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Description:
"Between April 2012 and March 2014 ADRA implemented a project with UKaid funding to reduce the poverty of 12,600 people within 15 villages of Pakokku Township. This is the project video report..."
Source/publisher:
ADRA UK
Date of publication:
2015-09-08
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-02
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Smallholder farming and farmers in Burma/Myanmar, Rice, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Sustainable/alternative development in and for Burma, Rural development in Burma/Myanmar
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Topic:
agricultural practices, capacity building, crop management, food security, water resource management
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agricultural practices, capacity building, crop management, food security, water resource management
Description:
"The Rakhine Winter Crops Project (RWCP) is an ambitious programme to facilitate crop diversification, increased production and improved agricultural water management for the dry season in order to increase farmer incomes, employment and food security. RWCP operates in Thandwe, Taungup and Gwa Townships of Rakhine State, Myanmar. Key aspects of the 5-year NZ$11.5m programme include, among others:
The provision of Good Agriculture Practice training and applied research for farmers to diversify into more productive and profitable winter crops;
The implementation of a home garden program, particularly for landless farmers;
Strengthening the institutional capacity of government extension workers and Community Development Groups.
Sandwiched between the Bay of Bengal and the Rakhine Yoma mountain range, Rakhine State is one of Myanmar’s least developed areas. Communities there confront a number of serious challenges, including malnutrition, poverty, conflict, weak infrastructure and susceptibility to extreme weather events. The majority of Rakhine’s population are reliant on subsistence agriculture. More than half of the rural population are landless and dependent on casual labour for employment and income..."
Source/publisher:
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) via Adam Smith International
Date of publication:
2018-09-25
Date of entry/update:
2019-07-30
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research, Sustainable agriculture - Burma/Myanmar, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Water resources of Burma/Myanmar, Education in Agriculture
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Description:
"Armed clashes between the Myanmar military
(Tatmadaw) and Arakan Army continued in May across
Rakhine State, resulting in small-scale and sporadic
internal population movements. WFP continued to support
newly displaced people with emergency food assistance,
assisting over 1,500 newly displaced people in northern
Rakhine and over 2,300 in central Rakhine during May.
In northern Rakhine State, WFP’s emergency relief
assistance reached 91,340 conflict-affected people from
164 Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu villages and two internally
displaced people (IDP) locations in Buthidaung and
Maungdaw townships. In addition, WFP reached over
18,900 children under 5 years and pregnant and lactating
women (PLW) through nutrition interventions. In central
Rakhine State, WFP nutrition assistance reached 6,430 PLW
and 27,070 children under 5 , and 113,700 food-insecure
people received WFP relief assistance..."
Source/publisher:
World Food Programme (WFP) via reliefweb
Date of publication:
2019-05-31
Date of entry/update:
2019-07-16
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Title: Benchmarking of Myanmar’s Food Systems: Evidence and Strategic Directions – Executive Summary
Description:
"Except for a limited few natural resource-rich countries, no country has made a transition
to high income status without a successful process of agricultural transformation. This
transformation is a multi-stage process of structural change involving fundamental shifts in resource
utilization, farm and value chain organization, product composition, and the scale and types of
contributions to a country’s macroeconomy. For most countries, dynamic changes in agriculture predate and help to foster broader patterns of economic structural transformation. Conversely, a stagnant
and underproductive agriculture can halt overall economic development in its tracks and limit a
country’s capacity to address inequalities between rural and urban areas, thereby incubating instability. These lessons from international experience strongly apply to Myanmar. Agriculture still
represents a large share of Myanmar’s GDP and labor force. Taking into account forward and backward
linkages, Myanmar’s agri-food sector still accounts for nearly 42 of GDP and 58 percent of employment.
Agriculture’s effectiveness in generating raw materials and a diversified mix of quality and safe food
products will continue to play a vital role in the development of the country’s manufacturing and
services sectors. And, the sector’s profitability will strongly impact the scope for domestic financial
resource mobilization as well as the ultimate size of the domestic consumer class. A vibrant agriculture
can support the development of a healthy urban economy, while a struggling agriculture will simply
absorb resources and retard the country’s overall competitiveness.
Poverty in Myanmar is primarily a rural and agriculture-related phenomenon and must
be largely addressed in these contexts. Of the 15.8 million people classified as poor in 2015, 87
percent lived in rural areas. Rural out-migration, both to cities and other countries, can play some role
in reducing poverty, but not for the bulk of Myanmar’s poor households. Much of the solution to poverty
in Myanmar will have to be found in rural areas, both through agriculture and non-agricultural activities.
Nearly half of the country’s poverty reduction between 2005 and 2015 is attributable directly to progress..."
Source/publisher:
World Bank
Date of publication:
2019-01-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-07-13
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"Fisheries and aquaculture make a significant contribution to Myanmar’s economy. The fisheries
sector contributes roughly 2 percent of Myanmar’s gross domestic product (GDP), 50 percent of
animal protein consumption, 6 percent of employment—rising to as high as 34 percent in some coastal
areas—and up to 56 percent of state/regional government revenue. Marine fisheries, freshwater
fisheries, and aquaculture contribute to production in roughly equal proportions, for a total annual
production of 3 million tons.
Fisheries’ contributions to economic output and employment in Myanmar still lag behind other
countries in the region. For instance, the aquaculture sector alone contributes more to the GDP of
Bangladesh and Vietnam (at more than 3 percent and more than 5 percent, respectively) than the
entire fisheries sector’s contribution to GDP in Myanmar.
There is a scarcity of scientific data on which to base the management of Myanmar’s fisheries.
Official catch estimates show an inexorable rise in marine fisheries’ production, but these are
contradicted by stock assessment data suggesting that between 1979 and 2013 pelagic stocks fell
by as much as 90 percent and demersal stocks by around 50 percent..."
Source/publisher:
World Bank
Date of publication:
2019-06-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-07-11
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
World Bank Group - Burma/Myanmar, Fisheries (including aquaculture and fishing), Sustainable/alternative development in and for Burma, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, The forests of Burma/Myanmar - General, Environmentalists of Burma/Myanmar
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"Myanmar’s forest and timber sector has been central to the country’s economy and society,
particularly over the last century. Myanmar’s forests contain some of the most valued species in the
world—particularly rosewood, ironwood, and teak. Myanmar also has one of the most longstanding
forest management systems in the tropics. Today, despite reduced timber extraction revenues, wood
industry still generates over 8 percent of formal government revenues. Beyond timber, rural society
largely depends on non-timber forest products (NTFPs) and agroforestry for food, medicine, and wood
fuel, which is by far the most important energy source in rural Myanmar, with between 60 percent and
80 percent of communities relying on this source. Some of Myanmar’s forests also form some of the
world’s most critically important biodiversity ‘hotspots’.
The importance of Myanmar’s forests is not limited to their wood products alone:
• Forest governance and the peace process are directly intertwined: Two-thirds of Myanmar’s
remaining forested areas are managed by ethnic groups, in many cases through customary
tenure systems, with much of this forest located in conflict areas. It is evident that inclusive forest
governance and natural resource management and empowering local agents will contribute to
the national peace-building process and reduce conflict.
• Community forestry (CF) and smallholder plantations are financially and socially viable and
can meaningfully contribute to rural income generation, provided the appropriate institutions,
rights, incentives, and technical support are in place. Community-based forestry programs
represent international best practice, providing tenure to communities to stimulate investments
and creating trust, income, and business opportunities.
• Wood processing can enhance exports and rural jobs creation. Myanmar currently loses
economic value from limited or wasteful low-quality timber processing of some of the world’s
most valuable timber. Looking to other countries in the region, Vietnam invested heavily in high
value-added processing and forest small and medium enterprises (SMEs) over the last 10 years,
and today is the fifth largest exporter of wood products with revenue exceeding that of Myanmar
more than twentyfold in value. The looming global supply gap for wood products will most likely
boost this sector even more in the future.
• At the same time, forests and mangroves provide significant ecosystem services for water
catchment, habitat for flora and fauna, carbon storage, soil nutrient recovery, and increasingly
important disaster risk protection. With accelerating climate change, forests’ role in both
mitigation and, more crucially, adaptation will be increasingly essential (improving basin-level
hydrological functions, especially maintaining moisture recycling and rainfall and reducing
droughts and floods), especially for downstream/lowland populations.
In the years before the democratic transition, forest areas were largely over-logged to maximize
timber revenues with little consideration for sustainability, which resulted in widespread degradation
of the Permanent Forest Estate (PFE). Illegal logging and corrupt practices are still ongoing, but in 2014,
a log export ban (alongside other policy measures) was imposed to stop the plundering of production
forests. Since then, the forest and timber sector is undergoing a series of reforms to better control and
manage the resources in a more socially inclusive and transparent way. Although the current direction
is positive, and there is high political ownership by the government and society, progress is still slow..."
Source/publisher:
World Bank
Date of publication:
2019-06-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-07-11
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
World Bank Group - Burma/Myanmar, Sustainable agriculture - Burma/Myanmar, Fisheries (including aquaculture and fishing), Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, The forests of Burma/Myanmar - General, Sustainable/alternative development in and for Burma, Environmentalists of Burma/Myanmar
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"Myanmar is rich in natural resources and is a global biodiversity hotspot. It is also a
country in the midst of a huge political and social change. For three decades, Myanmar
was ruled by a military junta. In 2015, free elections were held, and since then the
government has been grappling with the challenge of tackling poverty and developing the
country. However, the government is aware of the importance of managing its natural
wealth in a sustainable way as expressed in the Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan
(MSDP). This vision is supported by a recent World Bank The Changing Wealth of Nations
report that argues that the management of natural resources is critical to long-term
sustainable development (Lange, Wodon, and Carey 2018).
Myanmar’s forests and fishing industry are two significant contributors to the
economy, and yet these sectors are also potentially under threat from overexploitation
and mismanagement. The management of solid waste, air pollution, and the use of
plastics provides another growing challenge. In addition, the role of government and
other stakeholders in the management of these sectors and issues is central to whether
the government will succeed in reversing the current trends and be able to find a longterm sustainable solution to the problem.
This report explores the issues and challenges faced and the legal and institutional
context. Through a lens of poverty reduction, social inclusion and participation, and
economic growth, the report tells a story of an urgent need for institutional support
and reform, improvements in the enforcement against illegal extraction of resources,
behavior change in all relevant stakeholders, institutional capacity building, increased
funding, and improvements in data collection and analysis. If these recommendations
are acted on, then Myanmar can reverse the negative trends and lead its environment on
a path toward a more sustainable future..."
Source/publisher:
World Bank
Date of publication:
2019-06-11
Date of entry/update:
2019-07-10
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Mr. Benjamin Harkins, Programme Officer, Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT), at Nay Pyi Taw CHIME Workshop, March 6, 2019
Mr. Benjamin Harkins
Source/publisher:
IOM Myanmar
Date of publication:
2019-06-03
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-22
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Individual Documents
Category:
IOM Burma/Myanmar, Labour migration: global and regional studies, Food Security - global and regional literature, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Date of publication:
2019-03-22
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-19
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Individual Documents
Category:
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Climate Change - Burma/Myanmar: general
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Susan Beccio
Source/publisher:
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Date of publication:
2018-03-26
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-19
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International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar
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Rome, 18 December 2018 - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has signed a financing agreement with the Government of Myanmar to reduce poverty, and improve food security and nutrition for over 390,000 rural people in the northern Magway region and southern Chin state.
The agreement was signed by Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of IFAD, and, Myint Naung, Myanmar Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN in Rome. The total cost of the Western States Agribusiness Project (WSAP) is US$20.3 million of which IFAD is providing a $9 million loan and a $4 million grant.
While Myanmar produces enough rice to meet its consumption needs as a whole, the rural poor are often food insecure and do not have access to adequate food to meet their caloric and nutritional needs, or enough income to buy essential items.
The project aims to increase household incomes, food security and nutrition quality by helping rural communities to develop agricultural commodities and agribusinesses that can generate a profit and respond to market demand. Training will be made available so that farmers can improve their skills and knowledge in order to modernize production techniques.
The project will also invest in infrastructure, including improved irrigation to ensure a reliable supply of water to farms and household gardens, and rural access roads to facilitate farm to market mobility.
“The potential for smallholder agriculture in Chin and Magway is immense. We need to unlock this potential by providing training, financial services and access to markets to facilitate the transition from subsistence to commercial agriculture. Rural transformation in these areas is possible with the right support,” said Alessandro Marini, IFAD Country Programme Manager for Myanmar.
Due to its past isolation, Myanmar's agriculture sector has not benefited fully from global advances in agricultural technology. IFAD's strategy in the country is to focus on modernizing agriculture, upgrading value chains, fostering links between smallholder farmers and agribusinesses, diversifying livelihoods, promoting rural enterprises and generating employment off the farm.
The project area comprises the southern Chin state and northern Magway region. The project aims to reach about 76,800 rural households, of which 10,200 are in Chin and 66,600 are in Magway, and create about 4,500 jobs both on and off farm.
Since 2014, IFAD has financed three projects in Myanmar, for a total investment of $113.2 million, of which IFAD has provided $90.7 million. These projects have directly impacted 176,810 rural households.
Susan Beccio
Source/publisher:
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Date of publication:
2018-12-18
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-19
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Category:
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Smallholder farming and farmers in Burma/Myanmar, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar
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English
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Description:
"Evaluation contributes to accountability and lessons learning and should lead to improved management
decision-making and performance. For evaluation to play its roles, among other measures and procedures,
there needs to be careful consideration of evaluation recommendations as a basis for management
decisions.
Since 2006, FAO evaluation policy establishes that all evaluations in FAO must receive a Management
Response (MR) and a Follow-up report (FR). Standardized and assured quality in the Organization’s
responses and follow-up reports on evaluations enhances the transparency of the evaluation process and
enables drawing lessons on the effectiveness of, and compliance with the corporate evaluation policy. This
guidance note outlines the roles and responsibilities for the preparation of these reports.
FAO Office of Evaluation (OED) is also aware that the evaluation reports themselves need to facilitate
decision by management on recommendations and follow-up. Thus OED, in fulfilling its quality assurance
function, will endeavour to ensure that evaluation recommendations are expressed clearly and
unambiguously.
All queries on these procedures should be addressed to the Director, Office of Evaluation..."
Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Date of publication:
2018-04-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-18
Grouping:
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Category:
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Law and policy on land in Burma/Myanmar, Description of land in Burma/Myanmar, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Climate Change - Burma/Myanmar: general
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"The FAO Office of Evaluation (OED) has been conducting country programme evaluations
since 2005 to provide accountability to member countries, national governments and
development partners, and draw lessons and suggestions for programme improvement.
Myanmar was selected as one of the countries in which to carry out a Country Programme
Evaluation (CPE) in 2016. The main factors that led the FAO Office of Evaluation (OED)
and Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) to select Myanmar are: i) the imminent
end of Myanmar’s Country Programming Framework (CPF) in 2016, and ii) the coincident
termination of the assignment of the FAO Country Representative.
Since February 2016 Myanmar has a new democratic Government, with a non-military
president. In this changing environment the CPE should contribute to support the new FAO
Country Representative and the Government in identifying the future strategic direction
of FAO programme in the country. The Terms of Reference (ToR) for the evaluation are
the result of a preparatory phase, consisting of: a desk review of existing documentation,
a preliminary analysis of FAO’s portfolio of work in Myanmar, a contextual analysis and
scoping interviews with FAO staff at the country, regional levels and in headquarters.
The ToR also benefited from discussions held during the inception mission carried out
in December 2015. The evaluation team consulted with a wide range of stakeholders,
including government officials, donors, United Nations agencies, and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
The emphasis of the CPE will be on evaluating themes and issues important to the FAO
Programme in Myanmar. Individual projects will mostly not be evaluated in detail.
This ToR will be the guiding document for the Evaluation Team and will be shared with
counterparts in Myanmar, FAO staff in FAO Myanmar Country Office, FAO’s Regional
Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) and FAO headquarters. Their purpose is to provide
a description of the FAO Programme in Myanmar, identify key areas of work undertaken
over the past five years, define the scope of the evaluation and outline the evaluation work
plan. A set of overarching evaluation questions has been developed to further sharpen
the objective and inform the methodology to be employed at different stages of this
evaluation. The methodology and the evaluation tools will be further developed by the
team over the course of the evaluation..."
Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Date of publication:
2017-11-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-18
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Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research, Sustainable agriculture - Burma/Myanmar, Food Security in Burma/Myanmar - web searches, specialised groups, reports and statistics, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Sustainable/alternative development in and for Burma
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Description:
"Myanmar is at very high risk of continuing severe humanitarian needs
in 2018, according to the OCHA-managed Index for Risk Management
(INFORM) system. Inter-communal tensions, violence and natural disasters
have displaced large numbers of people in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan States,
threatening the agricultural livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people.
Across the country, some 241 000 displaced people – of which 77 percent are
women and children – remain in camps or camp-like settings.
Myanmar is one of the most disaster-prone countries in Asia and remains
highly vulnerable to natural disasters, including cyclones, storms, floods
and earthquakes. Promotion of disaster risk reduction approaches that help
increase resilience of the most vulnerable populations remains critical.
Some 778 815 people need food security support. They face limited
access to sufficient, safe and nutritious foods and inadequate availability
of diversified foods all year round. Populations in need include displaced
people, returnees, vulnerable people in non-displaced communities and
host communities.
Small-scale farmers, livestock owners and fishers require agricultural
assistance including crop, livestock and fishery inputs, support for vegetable
gardening and infrastructure rehabilitation to enhance agricultural
production and productivity.
To enhance the resilience and promote the self-reliance of affected
communities, it is necessary to restore, protect and improve livelihood
opportunities to complement family income, improve economic access,
reduce the use of negative coping mechanisms and increase availability of
quality and diversified foods at community and household levels..."
Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Date of publication:
2018-01-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-18
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Food Security in Burma/Myanmar - web searches, specialised groups, reports and statistics
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English
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"Welcome to the second issue of the FAO Myanmar Newsletter
in 2018 featuring highlights of FAO’s recent achievements
towards national priorities and global commitment to eradicate
hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in our life time. This
edition is now the sixth issue of our quarterly newsletter since it
started in March 2017! Having in mind that Myanmar is subject
to various challenges that can stress agricultural livelihoods and
undermine national food and nutrition security, much of our
recent work has focused on identifying the nexus between
climate change, natural disasters and poverty and how this
nexus can be best addressed for the benefit of the poorest
communities. FAO Myanmar remains committed to enhance
resilience of vulnerable communities through restoring,
protecting and improving livelihood opportunities. In May 2018,
a team of experts from FAO HQ, regional and country office, in
collaboration with WFP and with the support of the Government
of Myanmar, successfully conducted a mission to assess the
food security situation in Rakhine State. As forests constitute
the dominant ecosystem in Myanmar, with 44.2% of the
country’s land area, we have also continued actions to mitigate the impact of climate change through the establishment of the
National Forest Inventory System under the umbrella of the UN
-REDD Programme. With the aim of addressing the underlying
causes of malnutrition, we have been also supporting the
development of the Multi Sector National Plan of Action for
Nutrition (MS-NPAN) through “Food and Nutrition Security
Impact, Resilience, Sustainability and Transformation” (FIRST)
Programme, funded by FAO and the European Union. Finally,
recognizing the huge contribution of the livestock sector to
food security and the overall wellbeing of smallholders, we
have been supporting the development of policies and
guidelines to implement a national programme recognizing the
role of the Community Animal Health Workers (CHAW). While,
in the poultry sector we have also advanced in improving farm
biosecurity in Yangon Poultry Production Zone (PPZ) through
the Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases
(ECTAD)..."
Xiaojie Fan
Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Date of publication:
2018-07-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-17
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Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Sustainable/alternative development in and for Burma, Climate Change - Migration Burma/Myanmar
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"Happy Thadingyut and welcome to the third issue of FAO Myanmar
newsletter in 2018 featuring the most prominent activities of FAO in
Myanmar for the recent quarter!
During the previous quarter, FAO continued pursuing to reach its
sustainable development goals through the strong collaboration
with the government and resource partners. Recognizing the
relatively large, productive, and ecologically intact coastal zone of
Myanmar and understanding the requirement of conservation on
this valuable ecosystem, FAO’s EAF-Nansen Programme, with the
visit of the Research vessel Dr Fridtjof Nansen, conducted a survey
on the fisheries resources and marine ecosystem of Myanmar.
Myanmar is facing the global challenge of having enough quality
food for the total population and is also vulnerable to serious
natural disasters that negatively affect food security. As a
contribution of fighting against this challenge, FAO started off a
regional project on the Nutrition Sensitive Food and Agriculture that
will implement “Zero Hunger Challenge” in Myanmar.
Increasing and improving the provision of goods and services from
agriculture, forestry and fisheries is very important and essential for Myanmar’s sustainable development. The newly-launched
project of FAO at the Forest Research Institute will improve
research capacity and knowledge for sustainable management of
natural forests, which in turn, will enhance productivity of forest
plantations and restoration of degraded forests and landscapes.
Likewise, opening the “National Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Centre” will also help farming and forestry stakeholders in building
capacity to mitigate climate change and improve land condition.
At the same time, FAO is supporting the students from University
of Veterinary Science in the area of socio-economics through field
surveys as a support of providing graduates to work in rapidly
growing livestock sector of Myanmar.
FAO Myanmar remains committed to enhance resilience of
vulnerable communities through restoring, protecting and
improving livelihood opportunities. FAO is implementing a HARP
(DFID)-funded project in northern Rakhine State for the local
communities affected by the conflicts in 2017. The facilitation of
FAO during the observatory visit of British Ambassador to these
project sites is one of the highlights of this quarter..."
Xiaojie Fan
Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Date of publication:
2018-09-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-17
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research, Food Security - global and regional literature, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Climate Change - Burma/Myanmar: general
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English
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"The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) is a multilateral mechanism for the assistance of the
implementation of pledges by the G20 in Pittsburgh in September 2009, which is designed to improve incomes and food
and nutrition security in low-income countries by boosting agricultural productivity. In March 2017, the GAFSP Steering
Committee approved to allocate USD 27 million to Myanmar, of which USD 22 million will be administered by the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) and USD 5 million by FAO for technical assistance. The GAFSP initiative is a joint effort of ADB
and FAO building on complementarities and synergies in the interventions by the two agencies.
In the Central Dry Zone( CDZ) of Myanmar, nearly 25 percent of the population is under the national poverty line and about
50 percent are landless. The CDZ rural poor are also affected by a high incidence of malnutrition and food insecurity.
Stunting and wasting rates each range between 20-30 percent, with the highest incidence in dryland farming zones
compared with flood plain and irrigated areas. Over 50 percent of women age 15-49 years old are anaemic.
The theory of the implementation of the project is based on a premise that a market-driven approach is needed to help
smallholder farmers sustainably increase their income and improve their livelihood, food security and nutrition. For the
development of agriculture, tailored technical, infrastructural, credit access and organizational support are supposed to
increase the productivity and product quality of smallholder producers and disadvantaged rural groups involved in
commercially-oriented pulse and oilseed production and marketing systems. Those improved access and support also
benefit them from increased inclusion in profitable agriculture value chains through business relationships with other
private actors (traders, processors, exporters, etc.). As a results, the coordinated access and supports meet market
demands and, overall, contribute to national agricultural growth..."
Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Date of publication:
2018-09-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-17
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Food Security - global and regional literature
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English
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"This policy brief summarizes the future smart foods that are suitable for agriculture in eight countries in Asia-Pacific..."
Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Date of publication:
2018-01-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-17
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Food Security in Burma/Myanmar - web searches, specialised groups, reports and statistics
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English
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"The Asia-Pacific region is recognized for its important fisheries’ habitats and abundance of aquatic
resources; allowing the capture fisheries and aquaculture sectors to provide vital livelihoods and
food security throughout the region. However, the resources and the sustainability of the fisheries
are being threatened by inadequate, unsustainable fisheries and aquaculture management, high
fishing pressures, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU), improper pesticides and feed
use, and competition with other users of the coasts and aquatic resources and zones; leading to a
state of overfishing and degradation of habitats and water quality and other negative impacts to
ecosystem services. Although sharing stocks of important commercial species countries are
struggling to manage resources and transboundary stocks through urgently required collaborative
fisheries management planning.
In addition, because of their location and type of livelihoods, fishers, fish farmers and coastal
communities are directly affected by the lack of uncertainty, changes in species and their
distributions, impacts on production and post-harvest practices, sea level rise, coastal erosion and
other natural hazards exacerbated by climate change, such as toxic algal blooms, floods, strong
wave surges and cyclones that destroy infrastructure and make the act of fishing and fish farming
more dangerous.
Through its extensive portfolio of TCP, UTF, GCP (bilateral and GEF) and the Blue Growth initiative,
the FAO supports and promotes the responsible and sustainable development of fisheries and
aquaculture as guided by the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries.
Our proven and successful work ranges from the development and implementation of International
Plans of Actions on IUU, fishing capacity, sharks, and seabirds; the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries
and Aquaculture; efficient and safe post-harvest practices; all the way through to responsible trade
and marketing of fish products.
The FAO fosters and supports the work of regional fisheries bodies, such as the FAO Indian Ocean
Tuna Commission and Asia Pacific Fisheries Commission. The FAO also plays a key role in the development of recent global fisheries instruments, such as the binding FAO Port State Measures
Agreement and the Voluntary Guidelines in support of Small Scale Fisheries.
New, GEF 7 projects are able to build upon existing development strategies (DoF, etc) and efforts of
a range of partners, including but not limited to:
Regional Bodies: FAO Asia-Pacific Fisheries Commission (APFIC), Bay of Bengal-IGO, The Network of
Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA), Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
(SEAFDEC), Mekong River Commission (MRC), Pacific Community (SPC), Secretariat of the Pacific
(SPC), Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), RPOA-IUU,
Regional Seas Programmes (COBSEA/PEMSEA)
Private Sector including CP, Thai Union, Mars, MSC and ASC..."
Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Date of publication:
2018-05-13
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-17
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Fisheries (including aquaculture and fishing), Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research, Food Security - global and regional literature, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar
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English
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"Myanmar’s economy relies on agriculture, including fisheries and forestry, and the sector accounts for nearly half of the
total economic output of the country and employs more than 60 percent of the total labor force. There are enormous
resources for the expansion and growth of aquaculture and culture based fisheries, nevertheless, the full potential for
further development of its contribution to food security, employment and rural and national economy has not yet been
fully realized and documented in Myanmar.
In the past, tilapia species were cultured in shallow, narrow and temporary water bodies and were targeted only for rural
populations. Nowadays the tilapia, particularly hybrid and mono sex species, are widely cultured in intensive farms as a
result of the high demand from local consumers and an increasing demand from restaurants and barbecue shops. Tilapia
culture in Myanmar is constrained by seed production and seed quality as well as other management problems.
Government hatcheries in 2012–2013 produced freshwater fingerlings and the main species were rohu (549.20 million),
tarpian (127.86 million) and common carp (45.58 million), whereas the tilapia seed production was 13.06 million, only
1.65% of total seed production of different kinds of freshwater fish species.
FAO has been involving in earlier normative field work of tilapia farming, in addition, recently implemented a number of
country field projects to improve seed production and farming practices of tilapia and other inland fish species in the
Philippines, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The implementation of the project will greatly benefit from the experiences, knowledge
and lessons gained from the implementation of the past relevant country projects..."
Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Date of publication:
2019-07-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-17
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Fisheries (including aquaculture and fishing), Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Sustainable/alternative development in and for Burma, Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research
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English
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"Dear Readers,
Welcome to the first FAO Myanmar newsletter of
2019!
In 2019, FAO will continue its strong support to
the Government of Myanmar and its people. At
the start of the year, the new Country
Programming Framework (CPF) for Myanmar
outlining the priority areas of FAO support to and
partnership with the Government for a six-year
period was signed. FAO Assistant DirectorGeneral and Regional Representative for Asia and
Pacific joined the CPF signing ceremony as well
as observed the on-ground situation of FAO
projects in the country.
With the new framework of partnership, FAO will
extend its assistance to the Government to
achieve three main goals. The first is enhanced
food security, nutrition and food safety. The
second is strengthened governance and
sustainable management of land, forests, water
resources and ecosystems. The third relates to
enhanced resilience of local communities and
farming households to natural and humanitarian disasters, climate change and transboundary and
emerging infectious disease risks. The achievement
of these three goals will be closely linked to our
support in the accomplishment of the
Government’s strategies such as: the Multisectoral National Plan of Action for Nutrition (MSNPAN), the Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS)
and the Myanmar Action Plan for Disaster Risk
Reduction (MAPDRR). Through all the efforts that
are being put in place, FAO aspires to see economic
growth and political stability in Myanmar.
FAO Myanmar remains committed to contribute
to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in
the country more specifically, the Myanmar
Sustainable Development Plan through a strong
collaboration with the Government counterparts,
donors, and development and humanitarian
partners.
I wish you all a happy Myanmar New Year!
Enjoy reading our Newsletter!..."
Xiaojie Fan
Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Date of publication:
2019-03-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-15
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research, Climate Change - Burma/Myanmar: general, Sustainable/alternative development in and for Burma
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English
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"The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is implementing a project
entitled “Sustainable Cropland and forest management in priority agro-ecosystems of Myanmar
(SLM-GEF)” in coordination with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental
Conservation (MoNREC) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MoALI)
with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
The project aims to facilitate and strengthen sustainable land management (SLM), sustainable
forest management (SFM), and climate-smart agriculture (CSA). The project facilitates the
adoption of CSA policies and practices that will help to sustainably increase productivity,
enhance resilience, reduce/remove GHGs and enhance achievement of national food security
and development goals. At field level, the project is active in five pilot Townships from three
different agro-ecological zones implementing various relevant CSA initiatives mainly using
Farmer Field Schools (FFS) models.
Upland/hill Pilot Site: Mindat and Kanpetlet Townships, Chin State
Coastal/Delta Zone Pilot Site: Laputta Township, Ayeyarwady Region
Central Dry Zone Pilot Site: Kyaukpadaung and Nyaung U Townships, Mandalay Region
AVSI Foundation was contracted as a Service Provider to develop the FFS curriculum and FFS
Handbook for each of the above mentioned three agro-ecological zones. Accordingly, the FFS
curriculum/module on CSA techniques/practices for the prioritized agricultural crops and
cropping systems under each of the three agro-ecological zones have been developed
incorporating solutions to the major problems identified during the need assessments and also
considering the findings of value chain analysis. After finalizing the FFS curriculum, a FFS
handbook has been developed for each agro-ecological zone both in Myanmar and English
version. This handbook is intended to help the Extension Workers, FFS Facilitators and FFS
Committee/farmers to implement FFS on CSA techniques and practices in costal/delta Region
and scaling up the learnings in similar areas of Myanmar..."
Ms. Xiaojie Fan
Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Date of publication:
2019-01-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-15
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Smallholder farming and farmers in Burma/Myanmar, Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Climate Change - Burma/Myanmar: general, Sustainable/alternative development in and for Burma
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English
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"A series of events prompted by the armed attacks against the Myanmar border security forces by the Arakan
Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on 25 August 2017 in the northern part of Rakhine State, precipitated a
massive movement of Muslims and other ethnic minority groups making the current situation in Northern
Rakhine as one of the fast-growing humanitarian crises in the history. As a result, it is estimated that
approximately 700 000 refugees had crossed the border into Bangladesh. People who remained in their
villages are facing substantial hardships, including significantly reduced access to markets and agricultural
land, which have created a compounding negative effect on their livelihoods and increased the need for
immediate humanitarian assistance.
While the majority of humanitarian actors active in Northern Townships of Rakhine State focused on provision
of immediate food assistance, FAO and its implementing partners MHDO and LBVD supported the local
agriculture productions to stabilize and increase the availability of foods..."
Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Date of publication:
2018-06-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-15
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Smallholder farming and farmers in Burma/Myanmar, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Armed conflict in Rakhine (Arakan) State, Discrimination against the Rohingya
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English
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Communication for Sustainable Livelihoods and Food Security in Myanmar.
Khin Thuzar Nwe, Cho Ei Ei Zin, Ko Soe Thura, U Saw Shall War, U Myo Chit, Khun Kyaw Zin Htoo, Daw Latt Latt Khaing, Dr. Hla Kyi
Source/publisher:
ABC International Development
Date of publication:
2017-04-06
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-30
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Other crops, Rice, Agricultural policy, Agricutural inputs (fertilisers, pesticides etc)
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Abstract:
"Despite improvements in recent years, the prevalence of undernutrition among women and children in Myanmar remains unacceptably high. One in three children are stunted and about 8% are acutely malnourished. Micronutrient deficiencies are common among infants, young children and pregnant women. In fact, more than 80% of children 6 to 23 months of age and 70% of pregnant women are anemic. To better understand the determinants of undernutrition and the linkages between food security, livelihoods and nutrition in Myanmar as a whole as well as in specific geographic areas where programs supported by the Livelihoods, Food Security Trust Fund (LIFT) are being implemented, the LEARN project has reviewed food and nutrition security data from the past five years and synthesized relevant findings into this user-friendly report.
Guided by the conceptual framework of the determinants of undernutrition initially developed by UNICEF and adapted by the authors of the 2008 Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition, this report presents what is known about the immediate determinants of undernutrition and how they are affected by underlying food security, caregiving, and environmental conditions, which are in turn shaped by income poverty, lack of access to capital and basic economic and social conditions. As the purpose of this report is as much to present what is known about food and nutrition security in Myanmar as it is to identify what is not known, the structure of the report is intended to highlight gaps in knowledge and areas for further research. Following the Introduction, Section 2 presents national level data on the food and nutrition security situation in Myanmar in the past five years. Sections 3, 4 and 5 present data on food and nutrition security from the various agro-ecological zones that are of interest to LIFT, namely the Coastal/Delta, Dry, and Uplands. Each section is organized in the same way, beginning with data on the prevalence of undernutrition in the geographic area, followed by findings on potential causes of undernutrition, organized according to immediate, underlying and basic determinants.
This report will contribute to the overall knowledge base of the food and nutrition security sector as well as inform decisions related to the selection of interventions aimed at improving the nutritional status of families and communities in Myanmar."
Jennifer Cashin
Source/publisher:
LIFT-Fund
Date of publication:
2016-03-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-08-02
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English
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Executive Summary:
"The multi-donor Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund (LIFT) commenced operations in Myanmar in 2010, supporting implementing partners (IPs) to assist poor families to increase their food availability and incomes in three of the country?s main agro-ecological zones: the Uplands, Dry Zone, and Delta Zone. LIFT programming was later initiated in Rakhine State in the Coastal Zone. LIFT has funded a consortium of Save the Children (SCI), Action Contre la Faim (ACF) and Helen Keller International, to implement the LEARN project. The goal of this three-year project (December 2012 ? December 2015) is to build the capacity of IPs and to provide technical support to LIFT to maximize the nutritional impact of their food security and livelihoods (FSL) programming throughout the country.
In 2013, LIFT contracted ICF International, Inc., which worked with Myanmar Survey Research, to carry out its second household survey that included 2,400 LIFT households and 800 comparison households in 200 villages. In order to better understand the contributing factors of undernutrition in LIFT program areas and the links between child nutritional status and independent variables of programmatic importance to LIFT (such as income, livelihoods, food security, and water, sanitation and hygiene [WASH]), LEARN commissioned a secondary analysis of nutrition-related data from the 2013 LIFT Household Survey. The purpose of this report is to present the findings of this analysis."
Zaw Win, Jennifer Cashin
Source/publisher:
LIFT-Fund
Date of publication:
2016-03-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-08-02
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Language:
English
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"In late March 2015, Making Vegetable Markets Work (MVMW) Program, implemented by Mercy Corps in
partnership with Swisscontact, and the Dutch Economic Mission to Myanmar facilitated the establishment of
the Vegetable Sector Acceleration Taskforce (VSAT) . The VSAT is a multistakeholder platform that convenes
government, the private sector and development partners to help accelerate the development of Myanmar?s
vegetable sector. The organisation aims to boost vegetable production and consumption by improving access
to production knowledge, improving safe use of pesticides, developing a strong seed sector, reducing postharvest
losses and improving existing markets and creating new markets for vegetables.
Mercy Corps and its partners have collected considerable information on the vegetable production aspects of
the supply chain that have helped them to identify challenges and opportunities related to improving
vegetable production and efficiencies. While the organisations were aware that demand for vegetables was
increasing, an information gap was to know more about consumers? preferences for vegetables ? how they
perceived quality, their buying patterns, eating habits and perceptions towards chemicals and food safety.
The research reported here is the first consumer preferences research of Myanmar?s vegetable sector...."
Source/publisher:
Mercy Corps
Date of publication:
2015-07-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-07-31
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English
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This Handbook is designed for both farmers and students to use in the field and during training. It is divided into eight sections, each one containing several topics and all illustrated with large clear pictures. The Handbook can be read from beginning to end or each topic can be read separately. Space is provided for readers to take notes and to add their own local knowledge...Our people have always been farmers. Farmers of the river lands, of the mountains, and of the forests. Due to civil war in Burma, more and more of us have migrated from our native lands and many now live in refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border. The Royal Thai Government, its citizens, and non-government organisations have been very generous in their support to us. We have food, shelter, health care and education, and for this we are very thankful. But while we have been living in refugee camps we have slowly been losing our heritage, our wisdom, and our ways. For our children, rice comes from a warehouse, not grown on our own land by our own hands. In 1999, I asked the organisations that were already supporting us if they could help me look for ways to teach our children about agriculture and to help us live more self-sufficiently. The result of this is now called the CAN Project (Community Agriculture and Nutrition). This Handbook is the latest step in its ongoing development over 7 years with refugees and internally displaced people along the Thai-Burma border. There are many good books and resources on sustainable agriculture and we have learnt much from them. However refugees are constrained in their agricultural practices due to limited access to land, water and other resources. This Handbook attempts to present a summary of simple adaptations of ideas found in other books, manuals and resources on sustainable agriculture. This Handbook is not a textbook as such, but a compilation of different subjects for people to pick and choose. We know that it is not complete and I would ask anyone with ideas or suggestions to forward them so we can keep on learning. In the year 2000 I wrote a draft CAN Handbook. Then Jacob Thomson and I wrote the first CAN curriculum in 2001. Since then it has been used in training with nearly 5,000 school children, teachers, villagers, and staff of community-based and non-government organisations. Needless to say, since the first curriculum was drafted, we have had many experiences, learnt many lessons and made many changes.
David Saw Wah
Source/publisher:
Community Agriculture Nutrition (CAN)
Date of publication:
2007-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2012-02-16
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Nutrition, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Sustainable agriculture - global and regional
Language:
Burmese
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pdf
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3.33 MB
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This Handbook is designed for both farmers and students to use in the field and
during training. It is divided into eight sections, each one containing several
topics and all illustrated with large clear pictures. The Handbook can be read
from beginning to end or each topic can be read separately. Space is provided
for readers to take notes and to add their own local knowledge...Our people have always been farmers. Farmers of the river lands, of the
mountains, and of the forests. Due to civil war in Burma, more and more of
us have migrated from our native lands and many now live in refugee camps
along the Thai-Burmese border.
The Royal Thai Government, its citizens, and non-government organisations
have been very generous in their support to us. We have food, shelter, health
care and education, and for this we are very thankful. But while we have been
living in refugee camps we have slowly been losing our heritage, our wisdom,
and our ways. For our children, rice comes from a warehouse, not grown on
our own land by our own hands.
In 1999, I asked the organisations that were already supporting us if they
could help me look for ways to teach our children about agriculture and to
help us live more self-sufficiently. The result of this is now called the CAN
Project (Community Agriculture and Nutrition). This Handbook is the latest
step in its ongoing development over 7 years with refugees and internally
displaced people along the Thai-Burma border.
There are many good books and resources on sustainable agriculture and
we have learnt much from them. However refugees are constrained in their
agricultural practices due to limited access to land, water and other resources.
This Handbook attempts to present a summary of simple adaptations of ideas
found in other books, manuals and resources on sustainable agriculture.
This Handbook is not a textbook as such, but a compilation of different
subjects for people to pick and choose. We know that it is not complete and
I would ask anyone with ideas or suggestions to forward them so we can
keep on learning. In the year 2000 I wrote a draft CAN Handbook. Then Jacob
Thomson and I wrote the first CAN curriculum in 2001. Since then it has
been used in training with nearly 5,000 school children, teachers, villagers,
and staff of community-based and non-government organisations. Needless
to say, since the first curriculum was drafted, we have had many experiences,
learnt many lessons and made many changes.
David Saw Wah
Source/publisher:
Community Agriculture Nutrition (CAN)
Date of publication:
2007-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2012-02-16
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Nutrition, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Sustainable agriculture - global and regional
Language:
English
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"Myanmar has a policy of promoting food and nutrition security and, at the national level, food production is
more than that required to meet the country?s needs. Nevertheless, food and nutrition surveillance has revealed
that malnutrition still exists in the country, despite economic growth and national food self-sufficiency. The
National Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition, formulated in 1994 and adopted in 1995, accorded priority to
household food and nutrition security. Accordingly, in 1996, in partnership with the World Health Organization
(WHO), the National Nutrition Centre embarked on a study of household food and nutrition security in
Myanmar. A preliminary situation analysis revealed that transitional changes in the economic, demographic and
social sectors have driven dramatic changes in people?s lifestyles, behaviour and practices and that these
changes affect food and nutrition security. The present paper explores household and intrahousehold
determinants of nutrition problems in Myanmar.".....Results
Preliminary descriptive analysis demonstrated more acute
malnutrition in the urban area than in the rural area for both
the pre- and post-harvest periods. Furthermore, nutritional
problems were more acute in both the urban and rural areas
during the preharvest period than during the post-harvest
period. Urban children consumed fewer calories than rural
children during both the pre- and post-harvest times, while
children in both rural and urban areas consumed fewer
calories during the preharvest period than during the postharvest
period, although all the differences were not statistically
significant......Keywords: care of the vulnerable, food security, malnutrition, Myanmar, National Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition.
Aye Thwin MPH (NUTRITION), DFs&N, MB, BS
Source/publisher:
Asia Pacific J Clin Nutr (2001) 10(Suppl.): S34?S39
Date of publication:
2001-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2009-10-25
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Food Security in Burma/Myanmar - web searches, specialised groups, reports and statistics, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Combatting food insecurity in Burma
Language:
English
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General Health:
Underlying causes of malnutrition --
Why health workers should feel concerned by nutritional issues? Misconceptions Concerning Nutrition: Voices of Community Health Educators and TBAs along the Thai-Burmese Border;
Micronutrients: The Hidden Hunger; Iron Deficiency Anaemia; The Vicious Circle of Malnutrition and Infection;
Treatment: IDENTIFYING MALNUTRITION; MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE SEVERE MALNUTRITION;
GROWTH MONITORING: THE BEST PREVENTION;
Fortified Flour for Refugees living in the camp;
Making Blended Flour at Local Level;
The example of MISOLA Flour in Africa.
Health Education: Pregnancy and Nutrition;
Breastfeeding;
WHEN RICE SOUP IS NOT ENOUGH:
First Foods - the Key to Optimal Growth and Development;
BUILDING A BALANCED DIET FOR GOOD HEALTH;
From the Field:
How Sanetun became a malnourished child?
Source/publisher:
Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI)
Date of publication:
2004-12-00
Date of entry/update:
2007-07-01
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
"Health Messenger" etc., Food Security in Burma/Myanmar - web searches, specialised groups, reports and statistics, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Nutrition
Language:
Burmese, English
Format :
pdf
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5.17 MB
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