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Better Rice Initiative Asia project contributes to sustainable rice production in Southeast Asia with the Sustainable Rice Platform standard
Bangkok, 4 October 2017 – The Better Rice Initiative Asia (BRIA) project implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, shared its approach to Sustainable Rice Production in Southeast Asia through the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) standard during the 2017 Sustainable Rice Conference and Exhibition held at the United Nations Convention Centre (UNCC) in …
ASEAN Crops website launched at the Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry
Writer: Natasha Angsakulchai, Project Assistant, Facilitating Trade for Agricultural Goods in ASEAN (FTAG) ASEAN Crops website showcased at the Exhibition of the 39th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry and related meetings ASEAN Crops website (org.doa.go.th/aseancrops) is a platform to publicise ASEAN works on crops. The website is under the purview of …
The ASEAN Guidelines on Soil and Nutrient Management officially approved and available for download
Writer: Natasha Angsakulchai, Project Assistant, Facilitating Trade for Agricultural Goods in ASEAN (FTAG) ASEAN Guidelines on Soil and Nutrient Management (SNM) has been approved at the 39th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (39th AMAF) in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 28 September 2017. The Guidelines on SNM is the first of its …
Trade facilitation project to be kicked off in Cambodia, Thailand and Viet Nam
Writer: Natasha Angsakulchai, Project Assistant, Facilitating Trade for Agricultural Goods in ASEAN (FTAG) Ten senior government officials from Cambodia, Thailand and Viet Nam met together for the first time for a new project to facilitate agricultural trade at its 1st Steering Committee Meeting for Facilitating Trade for Agricultural Goods in ASEAN (FTAG) between 11 – …
ASEAN 101: ASEAN for the Next Generations (Video)
Writer: Rojana Manowalailao, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems What does it take for the present generation to secure food for the future ASEAN? Imagining a 100 year from now when food is shortage, and no longer safe, affordable, and accessible for everyone. Watch interview excerpts of multi-stakeholder players in the food value chain what they see …
ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems project generates 98 million euros of additional income to 125,000 farmers in four years
Presented at the 39th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (39th AMAF) in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 28 September 2017, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems (ASEAN SAS) shared its four collective principles that brought an estimated 98 million euros of additional income to 125,000 farmers during a period of 2014-2017. The four principles …
ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems: Principle 4 (Thailand)
I make my parents proud studying agriculture. My family does farming and every time when our neighbors want to know anything about agriculture, my parents will say ‘Let’s ask my daughter’.” Ms. Rattana Kachayut, Plan and Policy Analyst, Kanchanaburi Agriculture Research and Development Centre, Department of Agriculture, Thailand