Pathways to Sustainable and Inclusive Food Systems
| ADB facilitated interactive sessions between AgTech service providers and FPOs for low-cost technology solutions that can help generate new sales opportunities or improve sales prices of their crops. | |
| Climate Change is Transforming Farming, Making Your Morning Coffee More Expensive | Coffee growers, and other farmers in Asia and around the world, need to make farming practices climate-smart and environmentally sustainable in order to maintain food supply and rural income. |
| FAO Food Price Index | The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) is a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities. A feature article published in the June 2020 edition of the Food Outlook presents the revision of the base period for the calculation of the FFPI and the expansion of its price coverage, to be introduced from July 2020. |
| Food Systems At Risk: Transformative Adaptation for Long-Term Food Security | This World Resources Institute report offers bold recommendations to leverage new types of data and analytical tools to help rethink how we can invest in food system transformation, synthesis of analyses on how climate change affects the food systems, and examples and recommendations to implement participatory processes for transforming agriculture for climate resilience. |
| How an Irrigation Project Delivers Sustainable Outcomes amid Climate Change | Until recently, the farms of Kampong Thom and Battambang provinces mirrored the sorry state of irrigated agriculture in Cambodia. Not enough water was reaching these farms, leaving an overwhelming portion uncultivated, particularly during the dry season. The Uplands Irrigation and Water Resources Management Sector Project has started to reverse this situation. |
| Find out how agribusiness can help to reduce the impact of climate change if proactive, innovative practices are embraced. | |
| The event discussed the country’s past experiences, key challenges, and international best practices toward rural development. | |
| Looking at Edible Insects from a Food Safety Perspective: Challenges and Opportunities for the Sector | The intended audiences for this FAO publication are food safety professionals, policymakers, researchers, insect producers, as well as consumers. |
| Operational Guidelines on IFAD’s Engagement in Pro-Poor Value Chain Development | These guidelines address recommendations on ensuring that IFAD’s pro-poor value chain development projects reach out to women and the very poor, apply a programmatic approach when needed, promote an inclusive value chain governance, work with the appropriate expertise and partners, and build capacity for implementation. |
| Repurposing food waste: A circular economy approach for the food system | Transitioning Asia’s food system to a circular economy would reduce waste while making communities more sustainable and decreasing the impact on climate change. |
| This webinar discussed the opportunities and challenges to help achieve carbon neutrality, while ensuring food security and boosting rural economy. | |
| The Global Health 5050 Initiative | Global Health 50/50 wants to fast-forward the pace of change to make global health more gender equal. |
| The discussed concrete solutions and actions to mobilize financing of nature-positive solutions to promote safe food, nutritious diets, and resilient food systems, including innovative knowledge sharing and learning approaches, and natural capital financing. | |
| Upscaling Sustainable Land Management to Improve Rural Livelihoods in the PRC | The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has experienced massive land degradation and soil erosion problems due to unsustainable farming practices, overgrazing, and loss of forests, among others. These weakened the environment and ecosystems in the western region of the country, contributing to low agricultural productivity and poverty. In response, a technical assistance grant funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) expanded the scope of sustainable land management investments in selected provinces and autonomous regions to reduce regional economic disparities and ensure sustainable natural resources management. |
| Wholesale Agricultural Markets: Innovations for a Competitive Future | The webinar discussed technological innovations used in quality assurance and traceability systems in wholesale markets. |
| The Asia-Pacific Rural Development and Food Security Forum is a signature event organized by the Rural Development and Food Security (Agriculture) Thematic Group, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank. | Asian Development Bank Development Asia ADB Knowledge Events |