Title of document: Catalysing dialogue and cooperation to scale up agroecology: Outcomes of the FAO Regional Seminars on agroecology Authors: FAO Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: FAO Year of publication: 2018 Geographic focus: Asia & Mekong regional Main issues / topics addressed (for example: Agroecology: transitions to sustainable food systems; Agroecology for food security and nutrition:  key issues from the seminars; Common recommendations  from the seminars on agroecological transitions…) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/I8992EN/ Summary: The document is prepared in the perspective of the 2nd international Symposium in April 2018. It will give a feedback of the global FAO process on agroecology and discuss the main challenges regarding agroecology Region by Region, identifying key drivers to scale up agroecology and highlighting key initiatives undertaken in the region   Read More

Title of document: Scaling up agroecology initiative transforming food and agricultural systems in Support of the SDGS Authors: FAO Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: FAO Year of publication: 2018 Geographic focus: Asia & Mekong regional Main issues / topics addressed (for example: The document responds to four key questions: “What is the potential of agroecology to contribute to the 2030 Agenda?” ; “What are the key challenges and opportunities to scale-up agroecology?” ; “Which core areas of work should the Scaling up Agroecology Initiative focus on?”; and “What is the way forward for the Scaling up Agroecology Initiative?”…) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary: A proposal prepared for the international symposium on agroecology 3-5 April  2018 This document presents the Scaling up Agroecology Initiative, a vision to bring agroecologya to scale and transform food and agricultural systems to achieve the SDGs. The document responds to four key questions: “What is the potential of agroecology to contribute to the 2030 Agenda?” ; “What are the key challenges and opportunities to scale-up agroecology?” ; “Which core areas of work should the Scaling up Agroecology Initiative focus on?”; and “What is the way forward for the Scaling up Agroecology Initiative?”.   Read More

Title of document: The regional assessment report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Asia and the Pacific Authors: IPBES Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: IPBES Year of publication: 2018 Geographic focus: Asia and the Pacific Main issues / topics addressed (for example: Importance of nature’s contributions to human well-being and good quality of life; Varying trends of biodiversity and ecosystem services and the role of underlying drivers; Implications of biodiversity decline and opportunities  for sustaining nature’s contributions to people…) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): https://www.ipbes.net/system/tdf/spm_asia-pacific_2018_digital.pdf?file=1&type=node&id=28394 summary: Summary for policymakers of the IPBES regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Asia and the pacific.   Read More

Normal 0 false false false FR X-NONE TH /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:FR; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;} Title of document: Building trust in safe and organic vegetable chains through Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) Authors: VECO Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: VECO, ALiSEA Year of publication: 2018 Geographic focus: Vietnam Main issues / topics addressed (for example: Context; What is PGS?; How does PGS work? What results have PGSs achieved in Vietnam?; What are current challenges?…) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary: A Policy Brief ²Building trust in safe and organic vegetable chains through Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS)²   Read More

Title of document: Paradigm Trap: The development establisment’s embrace of Myanmar and how to break loose Authors: Walden Bello Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: TNI Year of publication: 2018 Geographic focus: Myanmar Main issues / topics addressed (for example: Introduction: Paradigm Trap; The Countryside: From Coercion to the Market; Extraction as Industrial Policy; Crony Capital: A Necessary Evil?…) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary: Before elucidating this alternative paradigm, the report discusses Myanmar’s economic past and where it’s headed under the current paradigm.  Starting with land and agriculture, it explains how the repressive extraction of the agricultural surplus coupled with massive land-grabbing produced a crisis-ridden and stagnant agriculture during the military regime. The paper then moves to a discussion of industrial policy, where it probes how and why the military regime’s experiments with industrialization failed, after which it lays out a critique of the foreign investment-led and export-oriented industrialization process promoted by the Japanese government, subjecting to close scrutiny the key pillars of this strategy: economic corridors to promote regional connectivity, special economic zones (SEZ’s), and the “fragmentation” of the process of production that is supposed to benefit Myanmar.   Read More

Title of document: Food Security and Nutrition in Myanmar: Policy Landscape Authors: Thanda Kyi Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: MOALI Year of publication: Geographic focus: Myanmar Main issues / topics addressed (for example: Poverty situation, food security and income generation; Myanmar National Action Plan for Food and Nutrition Security; Draft framework for multi-sectoral national plan of action for nutrition…) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary: For the agriculture sector, the aim is to increase the productivity and diversity of food stuffs and will focus on nutrient-dense crops, fish and animal-based foods, with an effort to integrate these into mixed farming systems   Read More

Title of document: Farmland policies for young generation in Myanmar: Purchasing and Leasing Authors: Mar Mar Kyu Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: Year of publication: Geographic focus: Myanmar Main issues / topics addressed (for example: Country Profile of Myanmar; Land resources of Myanmar; Overview of Agriculture in Myanmar; Agricultural land in Myanmar …) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary: The Union Parliament of the Republic of Union of Myanmar enacted The Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law and The Farmland Law in 2012. And also The Law of Protection of the Farmer Rights and Enhancement of their Benefits was enacted in 2013. These laws are encouraging to the farmers and the young generation because they become to have rights to own, mortgage, heir, rent, exchange and perform other economic practices.   Read More

Title of document: A Vietnamese agricultural cooperative’s involvement in the food safety value chain: Perspective and Policy Authors: Dr. Dao The Anh Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: CASRAD and FCRI Year of publication: Geographic focus: Vietnam Main issues / topics addressed (for example: Status of agricultural cooperatives in the transition process under the Cooperatives Law 2012; Real situation of cooperatives involving in food safety value chain…) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary: The government is promoting a value chain linkage model aimed at ensuring safe food supply to consumers by using VietGAP certification. Currently there are about 557 supply chains have been voluntarily certified around the country. Agricultural cooperatives play an important role in these safe food supply chains with contribution of 27% in the total of certified chains.  In particular, agricultural cooperatives play the role of organizing production for small scale farmers, common quality certification, common market access and linking with businesses in the value chain. However, the new type of cooperative has many difficulties in management capacity, access to capital and land so the scale of operation is small and the sustainability is low. In the future, the state needs realize policy to create a fair business environment for cooperatives, promote capacity strengthening and also changing the credit assess condition for agricultural cooperatives.   Read More

Title of document: New Policies for Supporting Private Agricultural Investments and Supplemental Regulations on the Use of Rice Land for Agricultural Commodity Production in Vietnam Authors: Dr. Dao The Anh, Nguyen Ngoc Mai Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: VAAS Year of publication: 2018 Geographic focus: Vietnam Main issues / topics addressed (for example: Some policies for promoting agricultural production and rural development…) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary: Vietnam in the past 30 years has implemented successful policies of national food security. The country has even become an ASEAN leading exporter of agricultural products. Nevertheless, Vietnam today is facing challenges of modernizing its agriculture to serve its integration into the international market. The government, hence, has issued a number of policies in order to promote the socialization of private investments in agriculture and rural areas.  Although most of the agricultural lands for a long time have been used for rice cultivation, the income of rice growers is reducing. This situation urges the need of converting a part of rice paddies into higher value crops. The new policies for management of this type of land therefore have been promulgated to ensure both objectives of national food security and income improvement for farmers.   Read More

Title of document: Smallholder Farmer Policy Support Review: Lessons from Vietnam Authors: Dr. Dao The Anh Journal’s name if any: Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: VAAS Year of publication: 2018 Geographic focus: Vietnam Main issues / topics addressed (for example: Agricultural policy context based on household economic; Review of Agricultural policy supporting smallholders since Renovation; …) School of agroecology (if any): Web address to original document (if any): Summary: The lessons learnt from government support policy for a success story of small farm development in Vietnam since 30 years was divided into two phases.The first phase was the food security at different level during 1988-2008 and The second phase policy to support small farm during 2008-2017   Read More