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Asia-Pacific countries keen to promote ‘One Country One Priority Product’ to showcase their best agricultural products
Countries across Asia and the Pacific are joining an initiative to promote and showcase the ‘best of the best’ of their special agricultural products – a move designed to ensure a high level of participation from smallholders to producers to exporters and others all along the value chain.To help build...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Event
Asia-Pacific Symposium on Agrifood Systems Transformation
‘The twin shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 5F crisis (food, feed, fuel, fertilizer and finance) have shown up structural weaknesses and the low levels of resilience in our agrifood systems. In conjunction with climate change and conflict, these crises are significantly derailing progress towards the achievement of the...
Thailand
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Journal article
Reflecting on the Plantationocene: the political economy of sugarcane plantations in Guangxi, China
This paper reflects on the concept of the Plantationocene through an analysis of sugarcane plantations in Guangxi province, China. It argues that although these plantations are owned and operated by local villagers, they are de facto controlled by corporations, and subject to state intervention through a ‘zoning scheme’. They are constructed and...
China
2022 - China Agricultural University
Manual
Dry zone of Sri Lanka - Climate-smart intensification of upland and lowland crop production systems
This guide explores the climate-smart intensification of upland and lowland crop production systems in the dry-zone of Sri Lanka and provides technical guidance to achieve the productive objectives of selected strategic crops (as deemed relevant by the Government of Sri Lanka). The first edition focuses on maize and groundnut upland...
Sri Lanka
2022 - FAO; World Bank;
Blog article
Afghanistan: FAO and the World Bank step up their response to the worsening food security
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) welcomed an unprecedented $150 million contribution from the World Bank to provide critical livelihood and life-saving assistance to the most vulnerable rural populations in Afghanistan, while boosting local food production and smallholder resilience.
Some 19.7 million people, almost half of Afghanistan’s...
Afghanistan
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Blog article
New FAO project to boost Vanuatu’s capacity for implementing National Census of Agriculture 2022
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Vanuatu launched a new project to support the country in conducting its third National Census of Agriculture 2022. Under the USD 300 000 project, FAO, the National Statistics Office (NSO), and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry,...
Vanuatu
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Blog article
PHILIPPINES – Empowering Family Farmer-Members through Coop-to-Coop Cooperations
The AgriCOOPh Coops4food program was introduced in 2020. This is an initiative that links producers’ cooperatives to consumers’ cooperatives, organizations, and community associations. The Coops4food model is a community-supported, market-driven strategy that generates interest and unlocks the potential of non-traditional markets as procurement organizations of fresh farm products to match...
Philippines
2022 - ASIA-PACIFIC FARMERS FORUM
Blog article
FAO Subregional Office for the Pacific launches its 2021 Annual Report
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Subregional Office for the Pacific Islands launched its 2021 Annual Report on 15 July 2022. The report was launched at the official launching ceremony that took place online and physically in Apia, Samoa and Port Villa, Vanuatu. Ministers from the...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Journal article
The Analysis of Family Farm Efficiency and Its Influencing Factors: Evidence from Rural China
Improving the efficiency of family farms is of great significance to rural revitalization and agricultural modernization in China. In order to find out the development status and shortcomings of family farms in China, and put forward targeted policy recommendations to improve the efficiency of various family farms, this paper applies...
China
2022 - Wuhan University, China
Case study
Agritourism promotes food traditions in Palau
Advancing gender equality and protecting the environment through agritourism in Small Island Developing States
Rose Ongalibang shows off the pinkish-purple powder in a small bag. “It’s taro flour,” explains the genial retiree at her home on Palau’s largest island, Babeldaob.
With its distinctive heart-shaped leaves, taro is traditionally cultivated by Palauan women in plots of land around the shores of this tiny Pacific country. The...
Palau
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Journal article
Determinants of farm-level adaptation strategies to flood: Insights from a farm household-level survey in coastal districts of Odisha
Farmers choose different strategies to cope with disasters. The scientific information on what adaption strategies do farmers across different socio-economic and regional strata choose to cope with disasters can help policymakers to make informed farm-level support interventions. Odisha is a flood-prone state in eastern India. The flood adaptation strategy choices...
China
2022 - Institute for Social and Economic Change, India
Blog article
Pacific countries highlight the benefits of safe food for better health
World Food Safety Day is celebrated annually on 7 June to draw attention and mobilize action to prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks and improve human health. Coordinated jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO), under the theme for this...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Journal article
A Study on the Impact of Natural Disasters on Farmers’ Relative Poverty
In 2020, China announced the successful completion of its poverty alleviation mission, noting that the focus of China’s poverty alleviation mission has shifted from eliminating absolute poverty to alleviating relative poverty. Due to global warming and frequent natural disasters, natural disaster shocks have seriously affected farmers’ livelihoods and aggravated relative...
China
2022 - Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China
Article
The Changpa and Ladakh Pashmina: Craft Revivalism, Skill Development and Ecology in Ladakh, India
Pashmina is one of the most expensive natural fabrics in the world, and yet the lives of those who produce this rare fibre in India is very tough. The Changpa of eastern Ladakh and western Tibet have for centuries supplied the fabled Kashmiri shawl industry with its essential raw material...
India
2022
Journal article
Impact of Natural Disaster Shocks on Farm Household Poverty Vulnerability—A Threshold Effect Based on Livelihood Resilience
Poverty caused by disasters poses a great challenge to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation. Livelihood resilience is the key factor for farmers to resist risks and get rid of poverty. Therefore, this study used the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) database. Firstly, we examined the impact of natural disasters...
China
2022 - Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, China
Practices
Beekeeping in Asia: queen rearing (Apis Mellifera)
Good laying queens are important to productive beekeeping. Although queens may be able to live for several years, it is to the beekeepers' advantage that their colonies possess good young queens. To ensure that they will have an ample supply of queens, many of them rear their own. The following...
Thailand
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Video
Translating UNFSS commitments into actions: focus on the Coalition for Transforming Food Systems through Agroecology
In the framework of the Asia Pacific Symposium on Agrifood System Transformation that took place in Bangkok, Thailand, this hybrid side event – hosted on 6 October 2022 – fully aligns with the implementation of the new FAO Strategic Framework to support the 2030 Agenda through the transition to more efficient, inclusive,...
2022 - GLF , Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Journal article
Impact of Zero Budget Natural Farming on Crop Yields in Andhra Pradesh, SE India
It has been claimed that Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), a burgeoning practice of farming in India based on low-inputs and influenced by agro-ecological principles, has the potential to improve farm viability and food security. However, there is concern that the success of the social movement fueling the adoption of...
India
2022 - University of Reading, UK
Video
Herbal pest repellent
Some plants repel insects naturally. Grow them in between your crop to deter insects. By knowing the wild plants that grow in your area, you can prepare your own herbal insect repellent at no cost. Add cow urine to help extract the repelling compounds from milky latex leaves, bitter-tasting leaves...
India
2022 - Access Agriculture
Video
Gender Equality in the Fisheries Sector
Women and men play important roles throughout the fish value chain, and also for the conservation of aquatic resources. However, there is little recognition of women’s valuable contribution to the fisheries sector. Women glean and collect seafood from the mangroves. Women clean and process the fish. Women sell fish products...
Cambodia
2022 - FAO
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