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Bangladesh, with support from ADB, is stepping up efforts to upgrade rural roads and market facilities to improve growth and livelihood opportunities, and to cut poverty in underdeveloped areas.

ADB is to help Jiangxi Province, in the People's Republic of China, develop eco-friendly measures to sustainably manage its forests, which are under threat from over-exploitation.

Partnerships and regional cooperation are critical to help stop biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation in the Asia and Pacific region, ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss said today.

ADB's Board of Directors today approved a $108 million assistance package to upgrade rural roads and irrigation systems in some of Viet Nam's poorest areas.

India's Assam state will receive ADB assistance to combat flooding and erosion, which regularly cause large economic losses and social upheaval in one of the country's poorest regions.

Asia's ageing irrigation systems must be revitalized to produce more crops with less water in the face of the region's surging demand for food, a rising population, and stressed water resources, say new studies released at a conference here today.

ADB is to help finance a major upgrade of rural roads in some of Cambodia's poorest provinces as part of a project that will also address growing road safety and climate change challenges.

ADB, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the International Fund for Agriculture Development have joined forces to tackle widespread hunger and build food security throughout the Asia and Pacific region.

ADB is providing loans, grants and technical assistance of nearly $34 million to help Cambodia improve the management of its water resources and to upgrade irrigation services to strengthen food security and cut poverty.

Bangladesh is to receive financial assistance from ADB to help make the delivery of public services more efficient and transparent.