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Exploring Pathways for Promoting and Scaling Up Climate-Smart Agriculture in Myanmar
This paper explores potential pathways for promoting and scaling up the uptake of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Myanmar, using qualitative methods. Key informant interviews with stakeholders from government, research institutes, international and local development agencies, and the private...Volume 19 Issue No. 1 (June 2022) -
Outcomes and Social Effects of a Community-Based Development Project on Selected Rice-Based Farmers in the Philippines
This research investigated the outcomes and social effects of a community-based development project in the form of a rice-based community intervention. Conducted in Regions 1, 6, and 10 in the Philippines, it employed mixed methods to gather quantitative and qualitative data concurrently from 86...Volume 18 Issue No. 2 (December 2021) -
In the Era of Climate Change: Moving Beyond Conventional Agriculture in Thailand
Thailand is ranked among the top 10 countries most vulnerable to climate change, and its farmers have faced the risk of natural disasters almost every year for nearly 30 years. However, those affected by climate change have also been the largest contributors to climate change, increasing the risks...Volume 18 Issue No. 1 (June 2021) -
Does MGNREGS Promote Inclusive Growth? What do Evidence Indicate?
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in India seeks to provide a specified number of days of employment at a specified wage rate to interested rural households, and ensures equal wages between male and female workers. MGNREGS will benefit wage seekers directly by...Volume 14 Issue No. 1 (June 2017) -
The Enabling Environment for Inclusive Agribusiness in Southeast Asia
Smallholder farmers constitute a sizable subset of the population in the ASEAN region and therefore are important stakeholders to consider in realizing the broader goals of inclusive development and poverty reduction. Linking them to various agriculture-related activities across the value chain...Volume 13 Issue No. 2 (December 2016) -
Devolution of Power and Community-Based Fishery Governance in the Bay of Blongko, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Natural resource governance in modern Indonesia is marked by the tension between the centralized policy strategy of the Suharto period and the reactive strategy of post-Suharto decentralization. To some extent, decentralization led to devolution of power and opportunities for local resource users to...Volume 13 Issue No. 1 (June 2016) -
Poverty, Income Inequality, and Irrigation Development: Longitudinal Evidence from Palawan, Philippines
We measure the impacts of irrigation development on poverty and income inequality in a frontier region of the Philippines. Using household panel data we measure changes in standard poverty measures and income inequality over the period 1995–2002. We make comparisons within the beneficiary...Volume 12 Issue No. 1 (June 2015) -
Prospects and Dilemmas of Institutional Networking: Case of the Southeast Asian Network for Agroforestry Education (SEANAFE)
This article highlights SEANAFE's experiences and lessons learned from its 15 years of operation as a regional agroforestry education network. It argues that while institutional networking offers opportunities in strengthening the quality of agroforestry education, there are also institutional...Volume 11 Issue No. 2 (December 2014) -
Governance, Institutional, and Pro-Poor Analysis of Cassava Contract Farming in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam
Contract farming is seen as one of the measures to facilitate participation of farmers in commercial agriculture, adding more value to agricultural products. Vietnam, however, shows mixed evidence on the well-known advantages of contract farming to small farmers such as reduced cost of accessing the...Volume 9 Issue No. 2 (December 2012) -
Food Security in Asia and the Pacific: The Role of Smallholders
This paper discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by small farmers in Asia and the Pacific region in raising agricultural productivity and in diversifying into high-value commodities. About 87 percent of the world's 500 million small farms (less than 2 hectares) are in this region...Volume 9 Issue No. 1 (June 2012)
