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Understanding Disease Transmission and Health Risks through Water Systems

25 August 2020
This presentation discussed how an integrated approach contributes to the understanding of health risks in water systems, mainly on freshwater systems, looking at drivers, pressures, state, impact, and responses, citing a few examples of innovative monitoring and modeling used in forecasting and…

SatSure

31 October 2019
SAGE Banker by SatSure is a product suite for banks and financial institutions to increase financial inclusion of small-hold farmers, increase operational efficiency across the lending processes, better portfolio risk management, and reduction of non- performing assets or loans. SatSure leverages…

AgUnity

31 October 2019
AgUnity is an Australian-based startup founded in 2016 with the ambition to help change the lives of over 1 billion smallholder farmers in the world. AgUnity provides a mobile and blockchain solution, Axsari, which improves trust and cooperation among smallholder farmers. and It is also used as a…

Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development

30 October 2019
[Session Summary] [Voices from the Field] Since 2002, the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development has been helping farmers help themselves through a number of initiatives. Download this presentation to know more.

Creating Opportunities for Rural Youth

30 October 2019
[Session Summary] [Voices from the Field] Ms. Sara Savastano, Director of the Research and Impact Assessment Division of the International Fund for Agriculture Development in Italy, shares some potential solutions and constraining factors as well as enabling policies for sustainable rural…

Financing Last Mile Communities

30 October 2019
We cannot solve poverty without addressing financial inclusion; and we cannot bring about financial inclusion at any sort of scale without technology that is relevant and useful to the people you are giving it to. Learn how AgUnity works to achieve this through the use of smartphones.

Ending Hunger in Asia and the Pacific by 2030: An Assessment of Investment Requirements in Agriculture

29 October 2019
This report analyzes the impacts of agricultural challenges in Asia and the Pacific. It also identifies investments required in different subsectors to achieve food security in the region by 2030.

Tackling Rural Distress in the 21st Century: A New Trans-Disciplinary Multi-stakeholder Paradigm of Development

29 October 2019
[Session Summary] The large demographics facts – 3.4 billion today in rural population – will still be over 3 billion in 2050. People will still live in rural areas in 2050. The possibility of absorption of more rural migrants into urban areas faces severe constraints, and there is both urban…

Keynote Address: Launch of Publications on Food Security Investment Requirements, Climate-Smart Practices, and Horticulture Value Chain Development

29 October 2019
This presentation provides an overview of the joint publications launched. These are the outputs from the joint research with ADB's long-standing partners, IRRI and IFPRI for over two years. The joint research was also done in close collaboration with national research organizations and think tanks…

Ending Hunger in Asia and the Pacific by 2030: An Assessment of Investment Requirements in Agriculture

29 October 2019
This presentation gives an overview of the joint publications of ADB and the International Food Policy Research Institute that assess the investment requirements in agriculture in the region. It also provides a snapshot of the researches conducted in Indonesia and the People’s Republic of China.