Case study's fact sheet: Agroforestry Alternatives to Shifting Cultivation in Upland Myanmar Supported by: World Agroforestry Center East and Central Asia (ICRAF-ECA) In practice since: 2016 Geographic focus: Myanmar School of agroecology: Agroforestry >>> See on map   Read More

Title of document: Profiles of participants attending the multi stakeholder workshops on agroecological transition in the Mekong Region Authors: ALiSEA Team Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: ALiSEA Year of publication: 2016 Geographic focus: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar & Vietnam Summary: These 4 documents compile short biographies and contact details of most of the participants who have attended the 4 national multi-stakeholder workshops addressing Agroecological Transition in the Mekong Region organized between March and June 2016 (Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam Lao PDR).   Read More

Title of document: Consolidated account of the 4 national multi stakeholder workshops on agroecological transition in the Mekong Region Authors: Pierre Ferrand Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: ALiSEA Year of publication: 2016 Geographic focus: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar & Vietnam Summary: This report presents a short consolidated account of 4 national multi-stakeholder workshops addressing Agroecological Transition in the Mekong Region and bringing together 225 participants that have been organized between March and June 2016 (Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam Lao PDR). Such workshops aimed at sharing knowledge, information and actions between agricultural development stakeholders.   Read More

Title of document: Myanmar: Analysis of Farm Production Economics   Authors: World Bank Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: World Bank Year of publication: 2016 Geographic focus: Myanmar Url original document: https://www.google.la/?gws_rd=cr&ei=wzpZV9G3Cp6UvQTSr6CwAQ#q=Myanmar:+Analysis+of+Farm+Production+Economics Summary: Both World Bank and Livelihoods and Food Security Multi-Donor Trust Fund (LIFT) are actively involved in supporting Myanmar’s agriculture sector given its significance in poverty reduction and food security, and they both consider the lack of reliable farm data to be a significant constraint to designing effective programs and policies. This report fills some of the data gaps. The presentated results are based on a 2013/14 Myanmar agricultural survey of 1,728 farm households in four regions of Myanmar that covered major crops grown in the surveyed regions during the monsoon and dry seasons. These crops include beans and pulses, oil seeds, and maize.   Read More

  Title of document: Crop protection and pesticide risk assessment Myanmar: towards sustainable    agricultural and export of high value crops Authors: Peeters, F.M.; Meggelen, J. van; Schepers, H.T.A.M. in Alterra Report Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: Year of publication: 2015 Geographic focus: Myanmar Url original document: https://www.wageningenur.nl/nl/Publicatie-details.htm?publicationId=publication-way-343835323638 Summary: The government of Myanmar and the Netherlands intend to start a partnership programme in different agricultural sectors, including horticulture. The Dutch Ministry of economic Affairs has fielded a technical expert mission in October 2014 to assess the potentials for growth and development in the vegetable, fruit and flower sub-sectors. In this context the Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs aims to assist Myanmar towards sustainable agricultural production and increased exports of high value crops. Investment in an integrated programme on Plant Health, including Integrated Crop Management and Pesticide Risk Reduction will result in an improved balance between benefits and risks of agricultural production in Myanmar. An expert team of the Netherlands existing of experts of Alterra and PPO of Wageninggen-UR and the NVWA have visited Myanmar (3-8 November, 2014). The objective of their mission was to provide clear strategic and operational directions for further development of an Integrated Crop Management and Pesticide Risk Reduction programme in Myanmar.   Read More

Title of document: Myanmar’s Agriculture Sector: Unlocking the Potential for Inclusive Growth Authors: David A. Raitzer, Larry C.Y. Wong, and Jindra Nuella G. Samson in ADB Economics Working Paper series Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: ADB Year of publication: 2015 Geographic focus: Myanmar Url original document: https://openaccess.adb.org/bitstream/handle/11540/5300/EWP_470_MYA%20Agriculture_14Dec_WEB.pdf?sequence=1 Summary: Myanmar’s agriculture sector offers substantial unexploited potential to underpin the country’s inclusive economic development. With extensive land, water, and labor resources, as well as proximity to fast-growing markets, the country’s agriculture has key competitive advantages. At the same time, Myanmar’s agricultural productivity trails its neighbors as a result of constraints in input markets, infrastructure, and institutions. Key actions to address these constraints include improving land tenure, expanding credit availability, investing in input markets for nutrients and machinery, developing drainage and irrigation systems, and enhancing rural transport and electricity connectivity. In the short-term, public-private partnership may help to address these barriers to investment, but increased public investment in innovation and attention to climate change effects as part of comprehensive long-term agricultural development planning.     Read More

Title of document: Proceedings of the national multi stakeholder workshop on Agroecology Transition, Myanmar   Authors: Pierre Ferrand, Dr Htet Kyu and Lucie Reynaud   Ministry/Government Agency/Organization: ALiSEA   Year of publication: 2016   Geographic focus: Myanmar This report presents the main findings of the discussions held during the 2 days workshop addressing the agroecology transition in Myanmar in Yangon on the 7th and 8th of March 2016.   Read More

Title of document: Agroecology Transition in Myanmar: Issues, Status and Stakeholder Mapping Authors: San Thein and Aung Thin Ministry/Government Agency/Organization: GRET / Village Integrated Development Association (VIDA) Year of publication: 2016 Geographic focus: Myanmar This report on situation review of agro ecological transition in Myanmar is the follow up feasibility study (Consultation workshop on agro ecology, held at Yangon, on 12 June 2013) with the support of Groupe de Recherche et d’Echanges Technologiques (GRET) conducting a stock taking of practices, actors, success stories and constraints to adoption of  agro ecology principles in Myanmar agriculture sector. This study aims at further mapping agro ecological initiatives at local, state-divisional and national level. The paper is divided into three parts: the first part explains background context, the second reviews the policy and legal framework promoting or restricting the agro ecological activities and the third part is the explanation of six schools of agro ecological activities at country level, divisional (provisional) and local level and their linkages finally followed by brief discussion of allies and champions in respective activities.   Read More

  Organic Farming Success Story: Water Hyacinth Cutter initiation for management of local resources in Agriculture activity   Supported by: Doe Taung Thu Organization   In practice since: 2013   Geographic focus: Myanmar   School of agro-ecology: Organic Agriculture   >>> See on map     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