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Food Security in Indonesia: Challenges and Policy Responses

10 August 2022
This presentation gives an overview of short- and long-term policy responses to food security in India.

Fighting for Food Security in People's Republic of China: Lessons from Cross-Country Approaches

10 August 2022

Agrifood Waste Upcycling Opportunities in Asia-Pacific

27 July 2022
Country case studies on successes and lessons in implementing circular economy policies, financing approaches, and projects including results achieved and the way forward. Waste upcycling opportunities in agrifood including investments highlighted.

Gender and Social Inclusion in Flood Early Warning - Key learning and effective practices

22 June 2022
Alison Sneddon of Practical Action talked about why gender and social inclusion matters for early warning, and provided a quick overview of the study conducted under the AASCTF in connection to the Baguio Smart Flood Warning, Information, and Mitigation System project. She also highlighted a number…

Working in inclusive cities in ASEAN region

22 June 2022
Sumaya Saluja from The Asia Foundation (TAF) followed Mr. van Etten's presentation by laying the context of some of the work undertaken by TAF under the AASCTF's Inclusive Cities Dialogues program why inclusion is important. The program is designed around a series of issue-specific dialogues to…

Gender and Mobility

21 June 2022
Marianne Weinreich from Rambøll and the Cycling Embassy of Denmark highlighted the main findings of their team's study on gender and mobility in a number of capital cities in Europe. She emphasized that gender is one of the most robust determinants of transport choice and shared some insights from…

SERD Policy Talk (SPOT): Strengthening the Agri-food System

10 June 2022
In the 10th SPOT webinar, Omer Zafar, Takashi Yamano, and Noorullah from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Dil Rahut from the ADB Institute, and Jennifer Rosenzweig from Indonesia’s World Food Programme shared their views on factors that threaten the agriculture food system in Southeast Asia. They…

HUSK: Building Soil, Sinking Carbon, Improving Lives

7 June 2022
Heloise Buckland, CEO and Co-Founder of HUSK, discussed the challenges faced by Asia’s smallholder farmers and presented a circular economy solution that promotes soil regeneration and climate resilience through the benefits of biochar products derived from rice husks.

ADB Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC)​

6 June 2022

ADB Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) (Hindi Translation)​

6 June 2022