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Contract Farming: Challenges and Opportunities
Over the last century a wide range of pre-harvest agreements that can, in one way or another, be termed contract farming have been...
Aug 14, 20182 min read
Report: Creating Opportunities for Women in Agriculture
SINGAPORE – The agriculture sector is particularly promising for increased investment in women. Farmers – the most numerous and invested...
Jun 25, 20183 min read
Promoting Socially Responsible Investments in Agriculture
BANGKOK, THAILAND – I recently attended the 2nd Regional Land Forum, organised by the Mekong Region Land Governance group, where...
Jun 7, 20183 min read
Grow Asia Hackathon: How harnessing digital solutions can help us achieve traceability in palm oil f
SINGAPORE - Buyers of palm oil have a range of incentives to trace their supply back to the farm gate; including reputational risk,...
May 16, 20182 min read
Grow Asia Learning Alliance: launching the conversation in Manila
MANILA – On 3 May 2018, Grow Asia ran its first Learning Alliance workshop in Manila to explore the potential and need for linking...
May 10, 20183 min read
Practical Learning at The Grow Asia Country Partnership Secretariat Workshop
SINGAPORE – I was grateful for the opportunity to participate in the three-day Grow Asia Country Partnership Secretariat Workshop, from...
Apr 26, 20183 min read
“It’s Cool to be a Farmer”: Professionalizing Agriculture to Attract Youth
JAKARTA – At the recent Jakarta Food Security Summit, one of the most interesting and certainly most fun sessions I attended was focused...
Mar 21, 20183 min read
Advancing women’s economic empowerment in South East Asia
We all like to have choices in life; and, best of all, choices that appeal to us. There is much said about the differences between women...
Mar 6, 20183 min read
Davos 2018: setting an optimistic tone for food systems
DAVOS-KLOSTERS, SWITZERLAND – This year’s World Economic Forum meeting was as fascinating and thought-provoking as ever. The annual event...
Feb 2, 20184 min read
PSAV join discussions at first annual Vietnam Coffee Day
DA LAT, VIETNAM – This month a series of events and important workshops were hosted in Da Lat city in the Central Highland province of...
Dec 22, 20173 min read
Grow Asia’s Digital Learning Series with Amit Mehra
As part of Grow Asia’s ongoing Digital Learning Series we hosted Amit Mehra, founder of Reuters Market Lite (RML), one of the very few...
Dec 8, 20173 min read
Technology to bring real value to smallholders
SINGAPORE - I recently had the pleasure of joining the latest session in Grow Asia’s Digital Learning Series, where we heard from Amit...
Nov 30, 20173 min read
Meet Somang Yang, Grow Asia's new Country Partnerships Manager (Mekong)
SINGAPORE - Join us in welcoming the newest member of the Grow Asia team. Somang Yang is Grow Asia's new Country Partnerships Manager for...
Nov 23, 20172 min read
A compelling case for multi-stakeholder cooperation from Lampung, Indonesia
INDONESIA, 10 October 2017 – My eyes were fixed on the changes of scenery during a 2.5 hour road trip to the Tanggamus regency in Lampung...
Nov 14, 20173 min read
Does scale matter?
SINGAPORE - Does scale matter? Yes, it does. Because the question is, how will all the 9 billion people in the world of 2030 obtain safe...
Oct 31, 20173 min read
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