Indonesia suffers billions in potential losses each year from the release of carbon stored in its burning peatlands. (Image Source: usdagov/FLICKR)
The Indonesian Peat Prize competition has been organised to find and establish a national standard for mapping the country’s peat most efficiently
The report recommended strategic approaches to eventually improve livelihoods and revitalise rural economies. (Image Source: Lano Lan/Shutterstock)
A UN FAO report has suggested that governments across the APAC region provide an enabling environment to support the integration outputs of poor, smallholder farmers into modern efficient value chains
The conference focuses on crops such as tomato, potato, tobacco, eggplant, pepper, and the ornamental Petunia hybrida. (Image Source: regan76/Flickr)
East-West Seed and Thailand’s Chiang Mai University have signed an MoU for a five year research cooperation, to build on earlier collaborations between the two partners
The Philippines’ department of agrarian reform (DAR) has launched a US$46.1mn project with International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to boost agricultural productivity, particularly in rice, coconut and coffee plantations in three regions
The collaboration will support a wide range of projects aimed to accelerate genetic research and advance breeding for the Bangladesh rice ecosystem. (Image source: 9Bombs/Pixabay)
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Advanced Chemical Industries Limited (ACI) have partnered to build a state-of-the-art rice breeding programme in Bangladesh
