October 01, 2019 08:00 – October 04, 2019 17:00 Holiday Garden Hotel & Resort, Thailand Presented By: ECHO Asia “Small Scale: Up Scale” How can we help small scale farming initiatives thrive in Asia? We can provide low-cost, innovative options that allow people to grow both their crops and their knowledge, expand their operations, and scale up! Join […]
AGRISUD International (AGRISUD), French Non-Profit and Non-Governmental Organization partners with Green Community Development Association (GCDA), a Lao Non-Profit Association (NPA) to implement a project – Forestry and Agro-ecology in Lao Rural Uplands Phase 2 (FORAE 2) in Viengkham District, Luang Prabang Province. The project’s specific objective is to “strengthen the agrienvironmental and socio-economic dynamics brought […]
BACKGROUND The consumer day is designed to engage consumers in the chain of vegetable production from the farm to table by taking into account the practices of Ecofarm Group. This event is based on few specific objectives: Raising consumers awareness on safe vegetable production and local food availability Introducing safety and quality assurance system-PGS which […]
To feed the world, we need to bring technology and small farms closer together! (Wim Hoogedeure, EY Partner) EY, USDA, Winrock, GAIA Vita and Bureau Veritas has been organized the event on the Agri-Business Conference Laos 2019 at the rooftop of Kolao Building on 25 June 2019. How can we harness all the new technology […]
GIZ organized “Stakeholder Consultation Meeting: Consumer Awareness on Food Standards in Myanmar” on 17 June 2019 at Pabedan Township, in Yangon. The objective of the meeting is to facilitate networking as well as the sharing of views, experiences and ideas on how to promote greater awareness on food safety and food standards in Myanmar. The […]
Context and Purpose of the job Launched in March 2015, DEMETER (Droits et Egalité pour une Meilleure Economie de la Terre) is a six-year research for development project taking a right to food and gender equality perspective to examining changes in food security in the wake of land commercialization in two focus countries, Cambodia and […]
With an increased access to electricity and internet, rural populations in Cambodia currently have better chances to access media on a variety of electronic devices, ranging from TVs, radios, smartphones and many other tools. However, the records of the level of agricultural media accessed by farmers are scarce, while the majority of the populations are […]
The Cambodia Agricultural Value Chain programme (CAVAC) showcased the research findings by Quantum Endorphine Digital on access to agricultural information on social media through their ‘Agribusiness on Facebook’ event, which took place May 30 at Sofitel. Gary Ellem, team leader of CAVAC, raised the issues faced when disseminating information to farmers, “There is a lot […]
Announcement Description Founded in 1976, GRET is a French non-profit association of professionals for fair development. It supports social and economic sustainable development with an approach based on partnership and action research. Active in 25 countries with 740 professionals in 2017, GRET has 14 permanent offices in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, where the […]
DATE: JUNE 9, 2019 9:00AM ‐ 12:00PM LECTURER: Dr. Varanashi Krishna Moorthy (India) Dr. Varanashi is an organic farmer, researcher, extension specialist and entrepreneur, and has considerable experience on composng, organic farming, water harvesng and management, low cost temporary sand and plasc dams, manufacturing bio‐ferlizers and bio‐pescide, bio‐gas, toilet waste recycling, organic cerficaon. Currently Dr. Varanashi manages several organizaons in Karnataka, India: Varanashi Development & Research Foundaon, […]