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Toward Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems in Asia and the Pacific

16 March 2021
Yasuyuki Sawada emphasized that COVID-19 reversed the gain in food security, highlighting the need for developing Asia to build back the food system better to reduce hunger and malnutrition. He presented how digitalization and technology can facilitate a post-COVID-19 transition to resilient and…

World Bank: Scaling up Investments in Food Systems Transformation

16 March 2021
Dina Umali-Deininger discussed the different challenges, opportunities, and visions for the food system in the East and Asia Pacific. She also shared World Bank’s vision for the food system to achieve a healthy economy, people, and planet; highlighted World Bank’s strong focus on enhancing climate…

Financing Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems in Asia and the Pacific

16 March 2021
In his presentation, Kevin Chen shared how sustainable and resilient food systems can be an effective instrument to address ADB’s operational priorities in closing financial gaps. The three priority actions that were highlighted are (1) reorientation of public finance and policy institutions, (2)…

ADB Business Opportunities (Agriculture and Natural Resources)

15 September 2020
This presentation gives an overview of ongoing and upcoming ADB business opportunities relevant to the agriculture sector.

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…

Renewable Energy-enabled Community-scale Agriculture: Evidence from Gram Oorja's Work

17 June 2020
The presentation discussed some initial interventions in community-scale solar pumping for agriculture. Preliminary learnings suggested that the approach is suitable for remote communities. Scaling these interventions holds promise and can facilitate further investments at the nexus of energy,…

Tanijoy

5 November 2019
Tanijoy builds an agricultural ecosystem where farmers can be more independent, collaborative and interconnected through technology. The company is based in Sudirman, South Jakarta and was established in 2017

FarmTrek Blockchain Ecosystem

5 November 2019
FarmTrek is a solution of InfoCorp Technologies, an integrated FinTech and AgriTech company that aims to bring inclusive financial services to the livestock industry in emerging markets. InfoCorp was founded in 2015 with headquarters in Singapore

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…