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  • Title of document: Agriculture at a crossroads – East and South Asia and the Pacific (ESAP) Report

    Authors  (only lead authors): Li Xiande (China) and Fu Qin (China), Duong Van Chin (Viet Nam), Mahmudul Karim (Bangladesh), Harold McArthur (USA), Charito Medina (Philippines), Vanaja Ramprasad (India), and Girija Shrestha (Nepal), Lim Li Ching (Malaysia), Sukhpal Singh (India), Anna Matysek (Australia), Ma Shimming (China), Elenita Dano (Philippines), Wais Kabir (Bangladesh), Rasheed Sulaiman V. (India)

    Organism: International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)

    Year of parution: 2009

    Link to the original website: http://www.unep.org/dewa/agassessment/reports/subglobal/Agriculture_at_a_Crossroads_Volume_II_East_&_South_Asia_&_the_Pacific_Subglobal_Report.pdf 

    Objectives of the document: Present the synthesis of the agricultural situation in East and South Asia and the Pacific.

    This document is a report of IAASTD that presents the general agricultural situation in East and South Asia and the Pacific. To present that situation, the document contains five parts: contextual realities, history and impact of agricultural knowledge, science and technology (AKST), influence of trade regimes and agreements on AKST, agricultural change and its drivers: a regional outlook, development and sustainability goals: AKST options.