[Session Recording] Leaders’ Roundtable: The Future of Food and Agriculture Read more about [Session Recording] Leaders’ Roundtable: The Future of Food and Agriculture ADB and its partners are organizing the Asia Pacific Rural Development and Food Security Forum on 22-24 March 2022. #RDFS2022 aims to discuss ideas on rethinking the future of agriculture amidst complex and evolving challenges; explore new research, innovations, and technologies that can help build nature-positive food systems; and forge partnerships and collaborations which will mobilize finance for innovation, research, and business in order to promote food and nutrition security in the Asia and Pacific region.
[Session Recording] Technical Session 1: Digital Technology for Agriculture Read more about [Session Recording] Technical Session 1: Digital Technology for Agriculture The COVID-19 pandemic promoted a surge in digital applications to agriculture, highlighting its potential to modernize agriculture and transform food systems. The session will focus on the role of digital technologies in transforming food systems to offer increased profits for farmers along the value chain. Discussions highlight requirements to make the digitalization of agriculture happen such as policy interventions, public-private partnerships, financing, infrastructure development, and capacity development, among others. #RDFS2022
Asia-Pacific Rural Development and Food Security Forum 2022: Battling Climate Change and Transforming Agri-food Systems Read more about Asia-Pacific Rural Development and Food Security Forum 2022: Battling Climate Change and Transforming Agri-food Systems The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and its partners organized the Asia-Pacific Rural Development and Food Security Forum to bring together innovators, experts, and thought leaders to:
Video: Enabling Public-Private Partnerships in Sri Lanka: Highlights of the PPP Monitor Read more about Video: Enabling Public-Private Partnerships in Sri Lanka: Highlights of the PPP Monitor Recognizing the vital role of public-private partnerships (PPP) for Sri Lanka in the current phase of development, ADB facilitated this knowledge event to introduce emerging highlights from ADB’s Sri Lanka PPP Monitor and initiate a discussion among stakeholders on improving the enabling environment for PPPs in the country.
Serendipity Knowledge Program for Sri Lanka Read more about Serendipity Knowledge Program for Sri Lanka Serendipity Knowledge Program is an ADB platform dedicated to identifying knowledge solutions for Sri Lanka’s development challenges. Serendib is one of Sri Lanka’s ancient names and serendipity refers to a fortunate finding, which is a common occurrence throughout the history of product invention and scientific discovery. ADB established this new knowledge program in 2021 in line with its vision as a knowledge solutions bank.
Is a Global Food Crisis Looming? Read more about Is a Global Food Crisis Looming? This presentation gives an overview of the current status of global food security and food price trend and potential responses to build resilient food systems.
Tim Benton Keywords brown bag webinar rural development food security economic growth Pandemic Response health crisis economic fall-out nutrition Health food index international food prices sustainability Read more about Tim Benton Professor Tim G. Benton leads the Environment and Society Programme at Chatham House. He joined Chatham House in 2016 as a distinguished visiting fellow, at which time he was also dean of strategic research initiatives at the University of Leeds. From 2011-2016 he was the ‘champion’ of the UK’s Global Food Security programme which was a multi-agency partnership of the UK’s public bodies (government departments, devolved governments and research councils) with an interest in the challenges around food.
Looming Food Insecurity Concerns in Asia and the Pacific: What Should We Expect? Read more about Looming Food Insecurity Concerns in Asia and the Pacific: What Should We Expect?
Integration of Remote Sensing and Crop Model for Yield Estimation Read more about Integration of Remote Sensing and Crop Model for Yield Estimation This presentation gives an overview on the integration of remote sensing and crop model to IRRI's rice yield estimation projects for agricultural advancement.
Rice Yield Estimation with Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning Read more about Rice Yield Estimation with Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning This presentation gives an overview on the use of machine learning model and satellite imagery for development in agriculture.