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Photo Courtesy of CCC On August 4, 2017, the Climate Change Commission, National Housing Authority, and the Philippine Green Building Council signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will facilitate the development of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA) for the building sector and promotion of green buildings in the country. 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...
The Access- and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Partnership Project supports the Indian government in the conservation of the country’s rich biological heritage, in which 7% of globally recorded species (more than 45,000 plant and 91,000 animal species) are challenged to co-exist with over 1.3 billion people and about one sixth...
On 21st June 2017, during the Annual Face-to-Face Steering Group Meeting in Bangkok, the Steering Group resolved to implement initiatives to more strongly promote the engagement of National Personnel (NP). The increased engagement of NP shall not only be reflected quantitatively in numbers on the official name list, but,...
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...
Biodiversity partners. The German Government has cooperated with the Philippine government in the field of environment and natural resource management. The Protected Area Management Enhancement (PAME) Project successfully held a National Learning Exchange at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ortigas Centre, Pasig City, on 6-7 September 2017. The learning exchange...
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...
Farmers will use fewer chemicals when consumers demand safer produces, says a senior officer of Indonesia. Farmers in Indonesia cannot live without chemical pesticides and fertilisers, Sri Wijayanti Yusuf from Ministry of Agriculture shares with ASEAN Sustainable Agrfood Systems during its recent Steering Committee Meeting in Thailand. “In Indonesia farmers spray...
To sustainably manage and protect their marine biodiversity, Pacific Island States have an appetite for open source geographic information systems and related planning tools. A new “cookbook”, developed by the MACBIO project, provides a free training hub and community of practice for spatial planning practitioners in the Pacific. Based on...
Potato farmers learn how to maximise their incomes on the test field – and to think economically. Sanjay Chowdary and his wife Laxmi show us the potato plant they have just pulled from the ground; at least ten tubers are hanging from it, three times more than the usual number...
