Palawija Forumhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12870/42622024-03-28T18:32:49Z2024-03-28T18:32:49ZPalawija forum. Vol.34, No.3, December 2017https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12870/42662024-03-22T03:08:13Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZPalawija forum. Vol.34, No.3, December 2017
<p>This edition will highlight the issue of “Technological innovation approach for sustainable and resilient agriculture”. Agriculture holds the key to supporting economic, social and environmental structures to strengthen our sustainable society. In addition, sustainable and resilient agriculture is critically important to achieving goals from other sectors, such as the sustainable use of water and energy, employment, equitable development and climate change adaptation. Accelerating technological innovation and facilitating the transfer of useful technologies across Asia and the Pacific is a key strategy to meet such challenges in the agriculture sector.</p>
<p>The main article discusses the opportunities and challenges in the implementation of information and communication technology (ICT) to support agricultural development in Indonesia. The Farmer Empowerment through Agricultural Technology and Information (FEATI) project developed by the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture is also highlighted in the article.</p>
<p>The second article elaborates the Sri Lankan Department of Agriculture's initiative to develop various farmer-centric services by adopting ICT tools to improve rural farming and ensure food security. Some successful ICT innovations are also showcased.</p>
<p>The third article describes some important technologies for enhancing agricultural resilience to natural disasters and climate change in Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR). The article concludes that the country's Agriculture Development Strategy to the year 2025 (ADS 2025) will focus on the development of agricultural technology.</p>
<p>This edition also shares a case story of the Republic of Korea in developing smart farms by using ICT applications for resilient agriculture, and a review on the updated edition of the World Bank Source Book, entitled ICT in Agriculture: Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions.</p>
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZPalawija forum. Vol.34, No.2, August 2017https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12870/42652024-03-22T03:08:13Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZPalawija forum. Vol.34, No.2, August 2017
<p>This edition will raise the issue of a “holistic approach to enhanced rural livelihood.” In 2015, countries adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals should not be addressed in separate and isolated ways. Rather, it has been emphasized that SDGs represent universal, indivisible and interlinked development challenges, which require a holistic policy approach through broader partnership. A holistic and coordinated approach is needed to formulate and implement innovative win-win policy options, and position them in the comprehensive national development strategies and plans. Articles in this edition give some perspectives on how a holistic approach could be operationalized in various policies or projects to enhance rural livelihood.</p>
<p>The first article illustrates an ESCAP project on widening access to rural energy through Pro-Poor Public-Private Partnerships (5P). The 5P approach consider the importance of rural community empowerment and socioeconomic development to ensure the energy access can enhance rural livelihoods more effectively and more sustainable. This article also shows some cases of the application of productive end use of energy (PEU) in rural livelihood enhancement.</p>
<p>The second article is about the indicator for sustainable agriculture, which was discussed at the SDG interagency and expert working group. The article discussed the potential benefits of promoting sustainable agriculture to achieve other SDGs and the importance of integrating the multiple benefits into the measurement of sustainable agriculture to support a holistic approach in SDG implementation. This edition also shares a success story on a win-win micro-entrepreneur network for community health in Myanmar, and a review of the Sustainable Development Goal Index and Dashboards Report.</p>
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZPalawija forum. Vol.34, No.1, April 2017https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12870/42642024-03-22T03:08:13Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZPalawija forum. Vol.34, No.1, April 2017
<p>This edition will highlight the issue of agricultural ecosystem services. The area has gained increasing attention from policymakers, international organizations, academics and NGOs since the 1990s as a promising concept to address the links among and integration of the environmental, social and economic implications of agricultural development. Ecosystem services contribute to sustaining agricultural productivity and nutrition value by supporting the pollination of crops and soil formation; regulating water, disease and climate; and providing recreational, cultural and spiritual benefits. In the agriculture landscape, famers are both stewards and beneficiaries of ecosystem services and have the potential to manage their farmland to enhance ecosystem services and ensure maximum benefits for themselves and others.</p>
<p>The first article in this edition discusses the potential of smallholder tree-farming systems to provision ecosystem services and food security. The research findings indicate that tree-based systems are an important reference point in national and international policies, both for public and private sectors, in achieving the SDGs.</p>
<p>A short article about the social, cultural and ecological values of ecosystem services provided through farming systems in the Pacific Islands illustrates the local wisdom on ecosystem services provision, which is an ancient concept in Palau and throughout the Pacific. This edition also shares an impact story on the case of financial incentives provided through a bee farms programme to coffee farmers in the Kodagu district of Karnataka, India that helps them to conserve the landscape they have inherited.</p>
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZPalawija forum. Vol.33, No.2, August 2016https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12870/42632024-03-22T03:08:13Z2016-01-01T00:00:00ZPalawija forum. Vol.33, No.2, August 2016
<p>This issue of Palawija Forum shares two articles on the topic of certification, with particular reference to the Asia-Pacific region. The article entitled “Promoting sustainable agriculture production and products in the Asia and Pacific Region” by S.V.R.K. Prabhakar and Daisuke Sano of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan, with contributions from CAPSA, highlights the role of organic agriculture certification in promoting sustainable agriculture in the region.</p>
<p>Astrid Offermans of the International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development (ICIS), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, in her article entitled “Sustainability certification in Indonesia: the road towards sustainability?” discusses the impact of certification schemes on smallholder farmers in Indonesia.</p>
<p>A success story on Thailand's carbon footprint labelling programme for agri-products as a tool for leading Thailand's transition to a low carbon economy is presented in this issue.</p>
<p>Information on the 2016 edition of The World of Organic Agriculture is also shared. The book provides a comprehensive review of recent developments in organic agriculture globally.</p>
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