Nonie Kaban

Nonie is an experienced development practitioner and senior manager. She has worked extensively on issues related to rural livelihoods, agricultural practices and markets, food systems, gender equality, appropriate technologies, and entrepreneurship. 

She applies business-like efficiency to social and environmental development contexts and enjoys low-drama work environments and learning from wonderful people.
 

Shingo Kimura

Shingo is responsible for ADB’s operation on sustainable rural development and food security in East Asia. Prior to joining ADB, he was Economist and Agricultural Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where he conducted a series of policy research for the productive, sustainable, and resilient food and agricultural sector in Europe, North America, and Asia.

Rural Prosperity with Carbon Neutrality and Food Security

Rural regions have the advantage of not only having the space for solar and wind energy production - which are low-carbon electricity technologies - but also have the potential to generate carbon neutral bioenergy. This scenario sets the opportunity on leading the process towards carbon neutrality. However, rural carbon neutrality does have implications for food security as food-land-nexus complicates the interactions.