Extended deadline till 20 December 2017 Our world is in transformation. Increasingly, changes in remote regions of the world are affecting daily life in Germany and Europe. Consciously or unconsciously, we feel it every day. People are on the move. Some are arriving at new places, while others are leaving...
By: Kristine Joy S. Villagracia BONN, Germany – “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Finally, after several years of formal negotiation processes, a decision on how the agriculture sector can tackle climate change issues has been finally reached at the 23rd Conference of Parties (COP23) of...
Ten senior government officials from Cambodia, Thailand and Viet Nam met together for the first time for a new project to facilitate agricultural trade at its 1st Steering Committee Meeting for Facilitating Trade for Agricultural Goods in ASEAN (FTAG) between 11 – 12 October 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand The...
ASEAN Crops website showcased at the Exhibition of the 39th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry and related meetings ASEAN Crops website (org.doa.go.th/aseancrops) is a platform to publicise ASEAN works on crops. The website is under the purview of the ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Crops (ASWGC)...
Bangkok, Thailand – As part of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have identified measures to strengthen climate resilience and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land-use sectors. And to achieve these NDC targets, the scaling-up of climate smart agriculture...
Bangkok, 4 October 2017 - The Better Rice Initiative Asia (BRIA) project implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, shared its approach to Sustainable Rice Production in Southeast Asia through the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) standard during the 2017 Sustainable Rice Conference and Exhibition held at the...
What does it take for the present generation to secure food for the future ASEAN? Imagining a 100 year from now when food is shortage, and no longer safe, affordable, and accessible for everyone. Watch interview excerpts of multi-stakeholder players in the food value chain what they see as the...
The four principles for sustainable agriculture stress cooperation among all stakeholders as a key for food security and already helped 125,000 farmers to get additional income of 115 million USD Chiang Mai / 28 September 2017 – The ASEAN-German principles for sustainable agriculture in ASEAN are shown today at the...
Photo by: (clockwise from left): Donald Bason, Rathana Peou, GIZ FOR-CC project, Hazel Tanchuling In an effort to continue the promotion of practices showcasing climate smart agriculture (CSA) amongst policymakers and farmers in the Southeast Asian region, the ASEAN Climate Resilience Network (ASEAN-CRN) released the second volume of the ASEAN...
Green Innovation Centre India in collaboration with Jharkhand Milk Federation (JMF) and Welthungerhilfe (WHH) jointly organised a one-day state level workshop on "Optimising Dairy Value Chain" in Jharkhand, Ranchi on August 17, 2017. The objective of the workshop was to harness the potential of the dairy sector in Jharkhand towards...
