Title of document: JEAI HEALTHYRICE Authors/editor: Fidero Kuok and Yoeung Sereyvath  Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: ITC Year of publication: 2019 Geographic focus: Cambodia Main issues/ topics addressed (for example: What is a JEAI?; JEAI Working Hypothesis…) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary: The presentation for the workshop “Pesticides, Agriculture and Food: Multiple and Growing concerns in Cambodia”, 28th of November 2019   Read More

Title of document: Ecologically-based Pest Management: A way out of pesticide reliance for Cambodian rice farmers Authors/editor: Rica Joy Flor, Cornelia Sattler, and BuyungHadi   Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: IRRI and UFZ Year of publication: 2019 Geographic focus: Cambodia Main issues/ topics addressed (for example: Pest mgt. practices of rice farmers; Current policy context; What had been tried for ecologically-based pest mgt…) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary: The presentation for the workshop “Pesticides, Agriculture and Food: Multiple and Growing concerns in Cambodia”, 28th of November 2019   Read More

Title of document: Pesticides and bees Authors/editor: Eric Guerin Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: Researcher Year of publication: 2019 Geographic focus: Cambodia Main issues/ topics addressed (for example: Pesticides toxicity for bees …) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary: The presentation for the workshop “Pesticides, Agriculture and Food: Multiple and Growing concerns in Cambodia”, 28th of November 2019   Read More

Title of document: IPM Program in Cambodia Authors/editor: Dr. Chou Cheythyrith Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: IPM Year of publication: 2019 Geographic focus: Cambodia Main issues/ topics addressed (for example: Background of National IPM  Program and Pesticide Application; Research of Application of Biological Control Agents…) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary: The presentation for the workshop “Pesticides, Agriculture and Food: Multiple and Growing concerns in Cambodia”, 28th of November 2019   Read More

Title of document: COVID-19 and the crisis in food systems: Symptoms, causes, and potential solutions Authors/editor: IPES-Food Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: IPES-Food Year of publication: 2020 Geographic focus: Global level Main issues/ topics addressed (for example: …) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary: The COVID-19 health crisis has brought on an economic crisis, and is rapidly exacerbating an ongoing food security and nutrition crisis. In a matter of weeks, COVID-19 has laid bare the underlying risks, fragilities, and inequities in global food systems, and pushed them close to breaking point. Our food systems have been sitting on a knife-edge for decades: children have been one school meal away from hunger; countries – one export ban away from food shortages; farms – one travel ban away from critical labour shortages; and families in the world’s poorest regions have been one missed day-wage away from food insecurity, untenable living costs, and forced migration…   Read More

Title of document: Presentation for Cambodia National Workshop on the Application of TAPE: a Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation   Authors/editor: Abram Bicksler, Dario Lucantoni, Anne Mottet, Emma Siliprandi With contributions from Rémi Cluset, Soren Moller, Anna Korzenszky, Frank Escobar, Pablo Tittonell and many others           Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: FAO Year of publication: 2020 Geographic focus: General Main issues/ topics addressed (for example: …) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary:   Read More

Title of document: Agroecology in times of COVID-19 Authors/editor: Miguel A Altieri and Clara Ines Nicholls Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: University of California, Berkeley and Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Agroecológicas (CELIA) Year of publication: 2020 Geographic focus: Global level Main issues/ topics addressed (for example: …) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): http://celia.agroeco.org/ Summary: Most of our global problems: energy shortages, water scarcity, environmental degradation, climate change, economic inequality, food insecurity and others cannot be addressed in isolation, as these problems are interconnected and interdependent. When one of the problems is aggravated, the effects spread throughout the system, exacerbating the other problems.  Like never before, the systemic nature of our world has been revealed to us by the coronavirus pandemic:  human, animal and ecological health are closely linked. Is this one of the lessons that COVID -19 is here to teach us?  Regardless, the pandemic is undoubtedly a wakeup call to humanity to rethink our capitalist, highly consuming mode of development and the ways we relate to nature.  The times we live, demand a holistic response to the crisis, one that addresses the root causes behind the now obvious socioecological vulnerability and fragility of our globalized world…   Read More

Title of document: Farmers’ access to credit in the Lao PDR Authors/editor: NUOL & NAFRI Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: NUOL & NAFRI Year of publication: 2019 Geographic focus: Lao PDR Main issues/ topics addressed (for example: …) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): http://laofab.org/document/view/4237 Summary: This study evaluates the access to finance of three main agriculture activities including rice, pig, and maize. The main determinants of the access to finance experience in farming, education, land size and number of workers. Farmers with at least primary school education have a higher probability of obtaining credit than those who have no school attainment. The analysis of farmer credit risk, based base on the 5 Cs principle, suggests that most farmers have a relatively high level of risk, which is likely to limit their access to credit…   Read More

Title of document: Regional Workshop: Scaling-up Agroecology in ASEAN Higher Education to Meet SDGs and Ensure Climate Resilience, Maejo University, Chiang Mai, Thailand   26-27 June 2019 Authors/editor:                                                             Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: OHEC, CU, MJU, SEARCA, ALiSEA, UNESCO Year of publication: 2019 Geographic focus: Thailand Main issues/ topics addressed (for example: …) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary: With support from the Office of the Higher Education Commission (OHEC) Thailand, Chulalongkorn University (CU) led a small multi-disciplinary policy studies and dialogue project on “ASEAN Way Forward for SDGs and COP21 through Social and Sustainability Sciences” contributing to the ASEAN Work Plan on Education (AWPE), 2016-2020 while Thailand was Chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2019 under the theme: “Advancing Partnership for Sustainability.” Final report “Regional Workshop: Scaling-up Agroecology in ASEAN Higher Education to Meet SDGs and Ensure Climate Resilience, Maejo University, Chiang Mai, Thailand   26-27 June 2019”   Read More

Title of document: Non-Timber Forest Products in the Green Economy of Lao PDR Authors/editor: Micah L Ingalls, Phetsaphone Thanasack, Cornelia Hett, Andreas Heinimann, Khamphou Phyoyyavong Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: TABI Year of publication: 2020 Geographic focus: Lao PDR Main issues/ topics addressed (for example: …) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339301368_Non-Timber_Forest_Products_in_the_Green_Economy_of_Lao_PDR?fbclid=IwAR1zZxZOTIfXR-kecPZYrrPrJKe6n1fsvBwFQxe7O-OidjTs80dge1Ile_A Summary: Poster from The Agrobiodiversity Initiative Project which underlines the importance of Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP) for upland families in Laos.   Read More