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.   Read More

Title of document: Towards an agroecological transition in Southeast Asia: Cultivating diversity and developing synergies Authors: Jean-Christophe CASTELLA; Jean-François KIBLER Organisation: GRET; AFD ABOUT THE STUDY Starting from the early 1990s, a multitude of national and regional initiatives have emerged in the Great Mekong Sub-Region for supporting ecological intensification of agriculture or agroecology. The French Agency for Development (AFD) has been a very active supporter of these initiatives, especially in relation to the promotion of Conservation Agriculture and the establishment of the Conservation Agriculture Network for South East Asia (CANSEA). In addition to its initial focus on Conservation Agriculture and with the objective of widening the scope of agroecology by including all other “schools” such as Organic Agriculture, Agroforestry, Integrated Pest Management, System of Rice Intensification…, the AFD commissioned a study to better understand regional and national agroecology dynamics and initiatives, their strengths and weaknesses as well as the main issues at stake for their large scale dissemination. The authors conducted this study in 2013 in the six countries of the GMS, through a review of the literature combined with country based consultation workshops in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam and expert surveys in Thailand and Yunnan-China. This publication aims at sharing some of the study’s key findings, and at providing a broad, yet non-exhaustive, overview of the current situation of agroecology in the Great Mekong Region. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Jean-Christophe CASTELLA is a geo-agronomist from IRD, seconded to CIRAD and based in Lao PDR. Over the past two decades, he has worked in the Mekong region on agrarian changes and their impacts on landscapes and livelihoods. Contact: [email protected] Jean-François KIBLER is an agro-economist from GRET with 20 years’ experience in rural development. He has coordinated a number of development projects in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar. Contact: [email protected]   Read More