Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is the United Nation's lead agency for food, agriculture and rural development, and its mandate is to eliminate world hunger and rural poverty by assisting countries to increase agricultural production and by promoting institutional reforms required for sustainable development through its role as an information centre, a neutral forum, an advisor to the Government and a development agency.

To achieve these objectives, FAO supports the Government in its efforts for capacity- building at community, sub-national, and national levels for effective planning, utilisation and management of natural resources and manpower.

FAO provides increasing access to technical know-how and strongly supports the transfer of appropriate technology and expertise to Bangladesh through training programmes conducted in many institutions of the country.

FAO Programmes in Bangladesh

• The Forestry Master Plan

• The Integrated Resource Management of Sunderbans Reserved Forests

• Bay of Bengal Programme for Fisheries Management