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.

[Session Summary] [Opening Video] Welcome remarks by Takehiko Nakao, President, Asian Development Bank at the Rural Development and Food Security Forum, 28 October 2019, ADB headquarters, Manila, Philippines.

[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.

[Session Summary] 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.

This presentation discusses how Sri Lanka-based Silvermill empowers farmer communities.

Turkey is the world’s fourth largest producer of fresh vegetables and 7th largest producer of fruits. Learn how the agriculture sector is growing rapidly in the country.

Check out how Thailand is mixing social and environmental dynamics with new technologies to improve the country's food supply chain.

[Session Summary] Check out how establishing farmer-producer organizations has helped farmers in Maharashtra, India.