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Agricultural Transformation in Asia: Experiences and Emerging Challenges
Agriculture plays a key role in economic development, alleviating poverty and malnutrition, especially in the early stages of agricultural development. Several studies have demonstrated that neglecting agriculture, especially at the early stages of industrialization, can disrupt the process of...Volume 19 Issue No. 2 (December 2022) -
What Happened to PhilRice's Microtiller? A Scaling Study
This study inquires on the outscaling of the microtiller, a machine developed by the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in the 1990s to address the tedious rice land cultivation in the Cordillera highlands of the Philippines. Stakeholders of the project were interviewed, particularly...Volume 19 Issue No. 2 (December 2022) -
Climate-Smart Villages in Southeast Asia: The Pivotal Role of Seed Systems in Rice-Based Landscapes
Given the aggravating nature of climate change impacts, rice farming will increasingly rely on improved resilience to climate variability and extremes. To this end, the climate-smart village (CSV) approach was developed to address specific challenges of smallholder farmers. Within Southeast Asia...Volume 19 Issue No. 1 (June 2022) -
Agricultural Biodiversity and Coastal Food Systems: A Socio-ecological and Trans-ecosystem Case Study in Aurora Province, Philippines
This paper presents a ridge-to-reef case study on Philippine biodiversity conservation that focused on reducing agricultural chemicals as a contribution to development goals of optimized food security, improving water quality, and mitigating maternal malnutrition. Building upon an earlier study that...Volume 18 Issue No. 2 (December 2021) -
Household Vulnerability to Climate Change and Identification of Target Beneficiaries to Implement Household-Specific Adaptation Strategies: A Quantitative Assessment
This study investigated the climate change vulnerability of 6,214 households in the drought-prone districts of Telangana state in India. Principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis were used to group farm households based on their level of vulnerability to climate change and to suggest a...Volume 18 Issue No. 2 (December 2021) -
Exploring the ICT Preferences of Personnel from Agricultural Extension Organizations in the Northeastern Region of India
Although the public extension system in India is known to be one of the largest in the world, it still lacks coordinated effort in managing the links between research, extension, and farmers, resulting in non-uniform distribution of agricultural knowledge and technology. A vast majority of the...Volume 18 Issue No. 1 (June 2021) -
Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Agricultural Production in Southeast Asia: Toward Transformative Change in Agricultural Food Systems
How will the COVID-19 pandemic affect the agriculture sector in Southeast Asia? Clearly, any disruptions in the agricultural food systems would create supply and demand shocks that would impact on the agriculture sector's immediate and long-term economic performance and food security...Volume 17 Issue No. 1 (June 2020) -
Book Review: Agricultural Innovation Systems in Asia: Towards Inclusive Rural Development
This book points to the need for finding alternative science, technology, and innovation or STI pathways to meet the new challenges from South Asian agriculture experiences. While technological, institutional, and policy innovations continue to remain important, embracing a systems approach to...Volume 17 Issue No. 1 (June 2020) -
Bio-Economic Assessment of Climate-Smart Tea Production in The Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam
Agricultural production in the face of climate change requires a climate-smart transformation and reorientation at multiple scales. Vietnam is one of the developing countries that is agriculture-based and severely affected by climate change; therefore it is crucial that the agricultural system...Volume 15 Issue No. 2 (December 2018) -
Heterogeneous Climatic Impacts on Agricultural Production: Evidence from Rice Yield in Assam, India
Understanding the nature and extent of climatic impacts on agricultural productivity under a variety of scenarios is extremely important for developing countries, where a sizable portion of the population relies on agriculture for life and livelihood. Thus, this paper presents evidence of...Volume 15 Issue No. 1 (June 2018)
