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Visit from Germany’s food, agriculture and consumer protection committee
On 25 October 2015, a parliament delegation of the German Bundestag, Committee on Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, visited the GIZ project partner “Southern Regional Plant Protection Center” (SRPPC) in Tien Giang province, Vietnam. The delegation was headed by Mr. Alois Gerig, chairman of the Committee. The purpose of this visit was to exchange information …
Training on Food and Nutrition Security in Lao PDR
Writer: Duangruetai Surasakjinda, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems Food and nutrition security remains a priority agenda for the government of Lao PDR. The Lao government has shown its commitment in addressing food and nutrition security in the country by recently launching the National Zero Hunger Challenge aiming to eradicate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. At ASEAN …
Partnership project to promote organic value chain in Vietnam
A strategic alliance between German organic companies and private-sector actors in Vietnam, so called Organic Value Chain Partnership (OVCP), is soon to be set up with the mandate of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) – Sector Project “Agricultural Trade and Agricultural Value Chains”. …
Farmers greet Indonesia’s DG for food crops with pest discussion
Writer: Rojana Manowalailao, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems When Indonesian Agriculture Ministry’s Director General for Food Crops visits a Farmer Field School in North Sumatra’s Nagur Village, Indonesia, farmers are discussing about pest and diseases they regularly spot in their rice fields among their farmer classmates. The class is part of the Better Rice Initiative Asia …
Challenges in Lao crop sector discussed in the country’s newly launched ‘Development Strategy’
In Lao PDR, the population is forecasted to reach 7,5 million and 8.3 million in 2020 and 2025 respectively and these figures do not include tourists who visit the country by 3 million times per year, according to the ‘Development Strategy of the Crop Sector 2015 and Vision 2030’ recently launched by Lao’s Department of …
Winding road trip with the Indonesian Director-General for Food Crops
Writer: Rojana Manowalailao, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems Left and right and right and left… Traveling from Kabanjahe to Perbulan Village of Karo Regency of Indonesia requires a lot of concentration and attention. While many several curves in this long and winding road can be exhausting and tiring but for the Indonesian Agriculture Ministry’s Director-General for …
Policy Dialogues organized in Lao PDR and Myanmar discussing priority actions for improving national food and nutrition security
Writer: Duangruetai Surasakjinda, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems With a new set of Sustainable Development Goals on the table to be formally adopted by world leaders at the UN Sustainable Development Summit on 25 – 27 September 2015, food and nutrition security remains one of the top priorities of the post-2015 global development agenda. The governments …
Farmers and pesticide retailers to get trained in integrated pest management in Vietnam
CropLife International and GIZ recently agreed on carrying through a training programme for farmers and pesticide retailers called “Promotion of Integrated Pest Management to address plant hopper outbreaks in Rice”. ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems (ASEAN SAS) is implementing this project in the context of the Better Rice Initiative Asia (BRIA) together with Vietnam’s Plant Protection Department …
Life outside a coconut shell: Food safety auditor raises different perspectives to fruit juice standard
Writer: Rojana Manowalailao, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems Napaporn Rattanametta compared her life as a frog living in a coconut shell. With her nine-year experiences working in Thailand’s fruit juice industry she thought she knew a lot, but after starting working in a private partnership project “Improved Product Safety and Quality for the Thai Fruit Juice …