Book announcement & Call for papers, Farmer Innovations and Best Practices by Shifting Cultivators in Asia-Pacific

Malcolm Cairns and his team are bringing to a logical conclusion what promises to be the world’s leading collection of scientific works on the practice of shifting cultivation, focusing on Asia and the Pacific. This book will be the third in a planned trilogy. Already, in the first two volumes, hundreds of the world’s leading […]

Regional Symposium on “Mapping and Assessing University-based Farmer Extension Services in ASEAN through an Agro-ecological / Organic Leans”, 23th February 2017, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

“We agree there are very different policies and priorities between all countries, but the common point is that they are all working under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework. The main problem though is that SDGs do not mention organic agriculture at all, they do not mention Agro-ecology either. That is where the university needs […]

1st Regional Academic Conference on Agroecology, Yezin Agriculture University, Myanmar, 24th & 25th of January 2017

On the 24th and 25th of January 2017, Yezin Agriculture University (YAU) has organized a Regional Academic Conference about Agroecology, with a close support from the Agroecology Learning alliance in South East Asia (ALiSEA) funded by the French Agency for Development. This Learning and Sharing Event took place in the framework of the ongoing collaboration […]

National Workshops Announcement “Mapping and Assessing University-based Farmer Extension Services in ASEAN through an Agro-ecological/Organic Lens”, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar

Co-Organizers: Chulalongkorn University, School of Agricultural Resources (CUSAR), Thailand Agroecology Learning alliance in South East Asia (ALiSEA), Regional office, Vientiane, Lao PDR United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Bangkok and Hanoi, Offices Can Tho University, Can Tho City (Southern Viet Nam) Royal University of Agriculture, Phnom Penh (Cambodia) Yezin Agriculture University, Nay Pyi […]

Call for Co-Research, quantifying & mapping Southeast Asia’s pesticide usage

GRET together with CIAT in the framework of the Agroecology Learning Alliance in South East Asia (ALiSEA) are planning to conduct an exploratory research initiative to quantify and map Southeast Asia’s pesticide usage. The main objective of this exploratory research initiative is to get an initial appreciation of pesticide usage patterns in key agricultural crops […]

Job vacancy, ADG Belgium (in French)

La vision d’ADG (Aide au Développement Gembloux) est celle d’un monde où chacun et chacune a les moyens de s’alimenter durablement de manière suffisante, saine et équilibrée, de vivre dignement de ses activités et d’exercer pleinement ses droits fondamentaux. Nous, ADG, sommes une ONG de développement belge, légitime et reconnue pour notre expertise dans le […]

Consultation workshop with Farmers’ Organizations’ representatives in Cambodia, October 2016

This workshop was organized in Phnom Penh on the 26th of October as part of ALiSEA objective to support the emergence and promote a shared vision about Agroecology. It involved thirteen farmers, representatives of 8 different Farmer Organizations (FOs). FO here refers to farmer association, federation or network. The objectives of the workshop were: To […]

AsiaGI 2017: Training about Geographical Indications In Asia, Cambodia

Following the successful initial AsiaGI training, held in Bangkok from the 28th of March to the 1st of April 2016 with 28 participants from all parts of Asia, CIRAD and REDD propose to carry out the second edition of ASIAGI in Kampot, Cambodia. Labelling agricultural, food and handicraft products with Geographical Indications (GIs) contributes to regional development, […]

Second call for proposal “Competitive grant scheme” in the framework of ACTAE Regional Project / Cansea Component

With a fast growing population, increased pressure on its natural resources and climate change impacts everyday more present, South East Asia is at a crossroads regarding its agriculture development, calling for an important shift towards an agroecological transition. In this framework, ACTAE project has a regional focus (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam) and aims at […]

Environmental Change, Agricultural Sustainability, and Economic Development in the Lower Mekong Basin conference: Call for papers

The conference will convene at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from March 16th to March 18th, 2017. It will be sponsored by the Department of Natural Resource Management and Development at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), Western Washington University, and the Global Research Institute at the University of […]