The Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has done an independent evaluation of a programme that aimed to promote and institutionalize AA and SRSP...

Fisheries and aquaculture contribute to food security and livelihoods of millions of people in Asia. Both women and men are engaged in fisheries and aquaculture. In the past ten years, many...

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is an innovative multi-partner initiative for improving food security and nutrition analysis and decision-making. By using the IPC classification and analytical approach...

The publication looks at innovations happening at all stages of the food value chain: from production to manufacturing and retailing. This also includes the extended value chain, for example input supply...

Like much of the world, Asia and the Pacific is in the midst of the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, dominated by Omicron variant – few months following the Delta variant driven forth...

The majority of human infectious diseases are of animal origin, and many recent emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), such as HIV/AIDS, the Nipah virus, severe acute respiratory...

Investing in One Health – cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary coordination and collaboration across the human health, animal health, and environmental health sectors – is crucial for maintaining healthy...

The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) jointly organized a two-day virtual...

The paper seeks to explain how technologies can be used to include smallholder farmers into the broader agri-food systems; this includes how smallholder farmers can be...

According to FAO, family farming is the predominant form of agriculture in the world. It is estimated that there are just over 500 million family farms in the world, ranging...