Sustainable agriculture development in EthiopiaIFOAM
Hailu Araya, Institute for Sustainable Development (Ethiopia) presents the Ethiopian Sustainable Development Project at the IFOAM side event at UNFCCC SB 32, Bonn, June 3rd 2010
Sustainable Agriculture as Solution to Global Challengessekem
Presentation by Helmy Abouleish, CEO, SEKEM Group
· What are the pressing Global Challenges of the 21st century?
· How is Sustainable Agriculture addressing them all?
· Why can the SEKEM experience serve as inspiring example?
This Project is all about agriculture techniques and ideas in which they can be sustained for future. Its main objective is to communicate about the methods and benefits of Sustainable Agriculture.
Sustainable agriculture development in EthiopiaIFOAM
Hailu Araya, Institute for Sustainable Development (Ethiopia) presents the Ethiopian Sustainable Development Project at the IFOAM side event at UNFCCC SB 32, Bonn, June 3rd 2010
Sustainable Agriculture as Solution to Global Challengessekem
Presentation by Helmy Abouleish, CEO, SEKEM Group
· What are the pressing Global Challenges of the 21st century?
· How is Sustainable Agriculture addressing them all?
· Why can the SEKEM experience serve as inspiring example?
This Project is all about agriculture techniques and ideas in which they can be sustained for future. Its main objective is to communicate about the methods and benefits of Sustainable Agriculture.
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit, scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in developing countries. IWMI works in partnership with governments, civil society and the private sector to develop scalable agricultural water management solutions that have a real impact on poverty reduction, food security and ecosystem health. Headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with regional offices across Asia and Africa, IWMI is a CGIAR Research Center and leads the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
Presentation on success stories and challenges ahead to make global agriculture more climate smart. Brownbag presentation in the WorldBank on 15th May by Andy Jarvis from the CCAFS program of the CGIAR.
Sustainable Agriculture And Environmental Protection Usda Weri Nri UnChristina Parmionova
The Brundtland Commission, formally the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), known by the name of its Chair Gro Harlem Brundtland, was convened by the United Nations in 1983. The commission was created to address growing concern "about the accelerating deterioration of the human environment and natural resources and the consequences of that deterioration for economic and social development." In establishing the commission, the UN General Assembly recognized that environmental problems were global in nature and determined that it was in the common interest of all nations to establish policies for sustainable development.
http://www.fao.org/agroecology/en/
Presentation held by Professor Long Li, a visiting expert from China Agricultural University to FAO. He presented an overview of agroecology in China, including Policies, Practices and Science.
SUSTAINABLE SILVOPASTORAL RESTORATION TO PROMOTE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN TUNISIAICARDA
25 - 29 November 2019. Antalya, Turkey. Near East Forestry and Range Commission (NEFRC) - 24th Session
Presentation by Dr. Mounir Louhaichi
Rangeland Ecology & Management
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
M.Louhaichi@cigar.org
http://www.fao.org/europe/events/detail-events/en/c/429132/
Presentation of Caterina Batello, from FAO, on Agroecology in FAO. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the Regional Symposium on Agroecology in Europe and Central Asia, held in Budapest, Hungary on 23-25 November 2016.
Options of making livestock production in West Africa “climate-smart”ILRI
Presented by Amole Tunde and Augustine Ayantunde at the 7th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture, Accra International Conference Centre, Ghana, 29 July–2 August 2019
Navarro-Racines, C., Ramirez, J., Jarvis, A., Loheto, K. Climate modeling, climate change and agriculture. Durban Agrihack Talent Challenge in the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture in Africa (GFIA Africa), organized by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the Durban University of Technology (DUT) and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). (Nov-Dec 2015). Durban, South Africa.
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit, scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in developing countries. IWMI works in partnership with governments, civil society and the private sector to develop scalable agricultural water management solutions that have a real impact on poverty reduction, food security and ecosystem health. Headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with regional offices across Asia and Africa, IWMI is a CGIAR Research Center and leads the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
Presentation on success stories and challenges ahead to make global agriculture more climate smart. Brownbag presentation in the WorldBank on 15th May by Andy Jarvis from the CCAFS program of the CGIAR.
Sustainable Agriculture And Environmental Protection Usda Weri Nri UnChristina Parmionova
The Brundtland Commission, formally the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), known by the name of its Chair Gro Harlem Brundtland, was convened by the United Nations in 1983. The commission was created to address growing concern "about the accelerating deterioration of the human environment and natural resources and the consequences of that deterioration for economic and social development." In establishing the commission, the UN General Assembly recognized that environmental problems were global in nature and determined that it was in the common interest of all nations to establish policies for sustainable development.
http://www.fao.org/agroecology/en/
Presentation held by Professor Long Li, a visiting expert from China Agricultural University to FAO. He presented an overview of agroecology in China, including Policies, Practices and Science.
SUSTAINABLE SILVOPASTORAL RESTORATION TO PROMOTE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN TUNISIAICARDA
25 - 29 November 2019. Antalya, Turkey. Near East Forestry and Range Commission (NEFRC) - 24th Session
Presentation by Dr. Mounir Louhaichi
Rangeland Ecology & Management
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
M.Louhaichi@cigar.org
http://www.fao.org/europe/events/detail-events/en/c/429132/
Presentation of Caterina Batello, from FAO, on Agroecology in FAO. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the Regional Symposium on Agroecology in Europe and Central Asia, held in Budapest, Hungary on 23-25 November 2016.
Options of making livestock production in West Africa “climate-smart”ILRI
Presented by Amole Tunde and Augustine Ayantunde at the 7th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture, Accra International Conference Centre, Ghana, 29 July–2 August 2019
Navarro-Racines, C., Ramirez, J., Jarvis, A., Loheto, K. Climate modeling, climate change and agriculture. Durban Agrihack Talent Challenge in the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture in Africa (GFIA Africa), organized by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the Durban University of Technology (DUT) and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). (Nov-Dec 2015). Durban, South Africa.
Achievements and challenges in Ethiopian agricultureILRI
Presented by Dr. Abera Deresa (State Minister, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) at the 'Dialogue on Ethiopia’s Agricultural Development', 12 November 2015, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The Brussels Development Briefing n.60 on “The future of food and agricultural transformation” organised by CTA, the European Commission/EuropeAid, the ACP Secretariat and CONCORD was held on Wednesday 26 February 2020 (9h00-13h00) at the ACP Secretariat, Avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels.
The briefing presented trends and discussed the sustainable and healthy food systems, the future of work in agriculture and the need for new skills in very complex food chains, the effects of disruptive innovations, fair and inclusive value chains and trade.
The audience was made up of ACP-EU policy-makers and representatives of the EU Member States, civil society groups, research networks and development practitioners, the private sector and international organisations based in Brussels as well as representatives from ACP regional organisations.
BIG IDEAS for partnerships in sustainable developmentICRISAT
ICRISAT has identified the biggest hurdles and opportunities critical for the
development of agriculture and agribusiness in the drylands.
The drylands cover 40% of the world’s land, where one-third of the people depend on agriculture and over 600 million of these people are among the poorest in the world. Climate change is also making the drylands a tougher environment to develop and survive.
Collaboration Exploring and Caring for the Diversity of Agriculture Intensifi...Francois Stepman
Philippe Petithuguenin, Deputy Director for Research and Strategy, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), European Partner of PROIntensAfrica
The Development-Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture Initiative (...Francois Stepman
The DeSIRA initiative was launched in 2017. The objective is to contribute to climate-relevant, productive and sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems in low and middle-incomes countries
Three outcomes are expected:
• Foster innovation in agriculture through research for Food, Nutrition Security, and Sustainable Agriculture with a climate change perspective
• Strengthen national agricultural research (capacities, governance mechanisms) and innovation systems
• Improve efficiency of research and innovation support services for climate resilient food systems by enhancing evidence for policy design and implementation
The strategic approach for DeSIRA is based on the following key points:
• Connecting both EU & EU Member States development agendas and national priorities regarding agricultural and food systems
• Linking research and innovation to contribute to impacts at scale addressing climate change with clusters of projects funded by UE and Member States
• Strengthening national research capacities both at individual and organizational levels
• Contributing to the continental (Africa) and global governance of research (GFAR, CGIAR, AIRCA)
• Building strong partnerships involving European, International and National research capacities
• Contributing to the assessment and fostering of Agricultural Innovation Systems and national innovation policies with a Capacity to innovate based approach
Scaling up strategies from technology transfer to empowerment with focus on a...SIANI
Presented by Riccardo Quiros during the seminar How to Feed Nine Billion within the Planet’s Boundaries - Agroecology for Food Security & Nutrition organised by the SIANI Expert group on Agriculture Transformation on March 10, 2015. Read more here: http://www.siani.se/expert-groups/agriculture-transformation-low-income-countries-under-environmental-change
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Poverty Reduction: Policy and Capacity Ch...LINKInnovationStudies
The 2008 World Development Report recognised that development through agricultural innovation would be central to reducing poverty in the poorest countries. However, contemporary notions of innovation and innovation capacity, characterised by networks or systems to mobilise knowledge and use it in new ways, not only call into question the main policy instrument for agricultural innovation — research — but also challenge accepted ways of working across the whole agricultural development architecture, particularly arrangements associated with technology transfer. To paraphrase a large debate, often agricultural development does not need agricultural extension services to transfer “modern” technology. Rather, assistance is needed to help farmers to better embed in flexible networks that link them both to market opportunities and sources of information on practices, standards and preferences and sources in inputs, including credit, so that they can make the most of these changing opportunities. This presentation outlines some points for policymakers to consider.
Martien van Nieuwkoop
CGIAR SEMINAR SERIES
Food Security Trends and Resilience-Building Priorities
Co-organized by IFPRI, the CGIAR, and Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
SEP 1, 2023 - 9:00 TO 10:30AM EDT
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
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Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
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Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
3. IAASTD Overview
Assessment process initiated by the World
Bank
• In partnership with FAO, GEF, UNDP, UNEP, WHO
and UNESCO and representatives of governments,
civil society, private sector and scientific
institutions from around the world
Uses a strongly consultative 'bottom-up'
process that recognizes the different needs
of different regions and communities
4. IAASTD Overview
Multi-thematic approach
Multi-level: global & 5 sub-global assessments
Multi-temporal (1950 to 2050);
Involved more than 400 authors
Peer reviewed by Governments and experts
Integrates local Knowledge with institutional
Knowledge and looks at policy and
institutional issues in light of history (50
years) and proposes options for action
Created a common vision of the future of
agriculture approved by 58 countries in April
2008, and welcomed by 61 countries
5. IAASTD: Role
To comprehensively, openly and
transparently assess the scientific, technical
and socioeconomic literature, experience
and knowledge relevant to how agricultural
science and technology can:
• Reduce hunger and poverty
• Improve rural livelihoods, and
• Facilitate equitable, environmentally, socially and
economically sustainable development through
the generation, access and use of agricultural
knowledge, science and technology
6. Global Report:
Some Key Findings
1. Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology
(AKST) has contributed to substantial increases
in agricultural production over time, contributing
to food security
2. People have benefited unevenly from these yield
increases across regions, in part because of
different organizational capacities, socio-cultural
factors, and institutional and policy environments
3. Emphasis on increasing yields and productivity
has in some cases had negative consequences on
environmental sustainability
7. Global Report:
Some Key Findings
4. The environmental shortcomings of agricultural
practice associated with poor socioeconomic
conditions create a vicious cycle in which poor
smallholder farmers have to deforest and use
new often marginal lands, thus increasing
deforestation and overall degradation
7. An increase and strengthening of AKST towards
agro-ecological sciences will contribute to
addressing environmental issues while
maintaining and increasing productivity
8. Strengthening and redirecting the generation and
delivery of AKST will contribute to addressing a
range of persistent socioeconomic inequities
8. Global Report:
Some Key Findings
12. Targeting small-scale agricultural systems by
forging public and private partnerships,
increased public research and extension
investment helps realize existing opportunities
13. Significant pro-poor progress requires creating
opportunities for innovation and
entrepreneurship, which explicitly target
resource poor farmers and rural laborers
14. Decisions around small-scale farm
sustainability pose difficult policy choices
9. Global Report:
Some Key Findings
15. Public policy, regulatory frameworks and
international agreements are critical to
implementing more sustainable agricultural
practices
16. Innovative institutional arrangements are
essential to the successful design and adoption
of ecologically and socially sustainable
agricultural systems
10. Global Report:
Some Key Findings
17. Opening national agricultural markets to
international competition can offer economic
benefits, but can lead to long term negative
effects on poverty alleviation, food security and
the environment without basic national
institutions and infrastructure being in place
22. Achieving sustainability and development goals
will involve creating space for diverse voices and
perspectives and a multiplicity of scientifically
well-founded options, through, for example, the
inclusion of social scientists in policy and
practice of AKST helps direct and focus public
11. A Major Challenge and Opportunity:
Small-scale Farmers
• Produce the bulk of global food
• Are the largest number of stewards for the
environmental services and biodiversity
• Higher and sustainable productivity increase at
their level will have a major impact on all the
development goals
• Critical need to inform and support policy
approaches that address small-scale/family
producers, including AKST designed to improve
profitability of the sector
12. Who Feeds Us?
Peasant cultivatio
hunting gatherin
Urban production
Industrial produc
13. A Major Challenge and Opportunity:
Small-scale Farmers
•Pro-poor progress requires:
•Creating opportunities for innovation and
entrepreneurship
• Increased public research and extension
investment
• Small scale farm sustainability – poses
challenging policy choices
•Payment for ecological services
•Decentralized governance systems and
choices
14. Climate-ready Agriculture?
Industrial Small-scale local
model agriculture
Food chain (seed to Food web
supermarket) Small scale system
Corporate control Production-
Proprietary consumption relation
technology biodiverse
Consumption far Informal networks
from production 75% of global food
Fossil fuel intensive production
Cash economy
30% of food
production
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15. Options for Action: New Equitable &
Sustainable Way Forward
Empower, involve and support farmers
(women) in sustainable agricultural practices,
restoration and management of ecosystem
services; crop/animal and labor productivity
increases; safety nets
Improve access to production resources and
remunerative employment on and off farm;
recognize the critical role of women and
empower them (education, land tenure, add
value locally to agricultural products)
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16. Options for Action: New Equitable &
Sustainable Way Forward
Improve markets, infrastructure, and
institutions
Expand and disseminate ecosystem
sustainability oriented research, knowledge,
and technology with stakeholder participation
Bring all sectors responsible for sustainable
development into a comprehensive systematic
analysis, to recognize that policy decisions in
one sector (i.e., transportation) strongly affect
other sectors (input & market access)
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17. Options for Action: New
Equitable & Sustainable Way
Promote responsible governance at
global, regional and local levels
Invest in long term gains versus
short term quick fixes (i.e., deal
with the cause not the symptoms)
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18. Options for Action:
Empower, Involve and Support farmers
Targeting AKST strategies that combine
productivity with protection of natural
resources (i.e., pollination)
Using natural systems to regulate pest
outbreaks
Using natural systems to restore and maintain
soil fertility
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19. Incentivizing Small-Scale
Sustainable Agriculture
Eliminating perverse subsidies to the
un-sustainable agricultural systems
and practices
Leveling the playing field by:
• correcting programs that are biased to
large-scale, un-sustainable farming
practices
• corrective policy measures
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20. Incentivizing Small-Scale
Sustainable Agriculture
Providing direct incentives through:
• Redirecting subsidies to small-scale
sustainable agricultural practices
• Providing appropriate infrastructure
support and mechanisms, including
credits
• Research, extension and education
services
• Market access, information and support
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21. Transforming Policies to Real Solutions:
Thailand’s Green Net
a Thai social enterprise established in 1993 to
promote sustainable agriculture through
providing fair-trade market access to producer
groups, producing organic products
Vision: to be a leader in promoting and
supporting "Organic Farming" and “Fair Trade”
through environmentally and socially
responsible living as "Life Fair, Live Organic"
With 1,100 members, most of whom are
organic producers with registered capital of
around THB 1.8 million.
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22. Transforming Policies to Real Solutions:
Thailand’s Green Net
One of the largest organic producers and
wholesaler in Thailand
with over 20 product lines sold through some
40 retail outlets in Bangkok and around
Thailand
Operates fair-trade exports to Europe
Products are purchased from 8 farmer groups
in the Northern, Northeastern and Central
regions of Thailand
22
23. Transforming Policies to Real Solutions:
Thailand’s Green Net
Founded to support small-scale farmers to adopt sustainable farming
practices in order to improve their livelihood and agro-ecological
conditions in the rural areas by raising farmers’ awareness on the
negative impacts of agro-chemicals and the dependency on external
markets and promoting indigenous knowledge of sustainable farming
practices
since early 1990s, had started revolutionizing the strategies through
incorporating economic (market) incentive and revising extension
methodologies
established a local organic certification body to provide inspection and
certification services to ensure better market access
took advantage of market opportunities for organic products in
Thailand and abroad
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24. Transforming Policies to Real Solutions:
Philippines’ Organic Agriculture Act
• Republic Act 10068: Organic Agriculture Act of
2010
• state policy to promote, propagate, and further
develop the practice of organic farming in the
Philippines
• establishes a comprehensive National Organize
Agricultural Program (NOAP) which will
promote, commercialize and cultivate organic
farming methods through farmers' and
consumers' education
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25. Transforming Policies to Real Solutions:
Philippines’ Organic Agriculture Act
The program will be carried by the National
Organic Agriculture Board (NOAB), a policy-
making body that will provide the direction and
general guidelines for the implementation of
the national program
The NOAB will also identify funding sources to
expand organic agriculture, monitor and
evaluate the performance of programs for
appropriate incentives.
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26. Transforming Policies
to Real Solution
Can the CDM incentivize small-scale
sustainable/organic agriculture?
Concerns:
• scale
• monocropping: impacts on agricultural
biodiversity
• mono-practices: impacts on traditional
farming practices and knowledge systems
• accessibility and affordability
• elite capture
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27. Business as Usual
is NOT an Option
You cannot solve the problem with
the same kind of thinking that
created the problem
- Albert Einstein
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