Meet Grow PNG's Executive Director, Ivan Pomaleu
We are delighted to welcome Ivan Pomaleu as Executive Director of Grow PNG, Grow Asia’s newly launched Country Partnership for Papua New...
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- Jun 28, 2019
- 2 min
Agriculture drone landscape and adoption in South East Asia
In the second Grow Asia Digital Learning Series Workshop we brought together 100 industry stakeholders (including 50 joining by webcam...
- Apr 23, 2019
- 1 min
Meet U Ye Htut, Country Director for Myanmar
We are delighted to welcome U Ye Htut as Country Director of the Myanmar Agriculture Network (MAN). In this Q&A, we invite you to get to...
- Apr 22, 2019
- 2 min
Human-Centered Design Immersion Training
There are some 100 million small farms in ASEAN. When we imagine what it would be like to make a living from a single acre of corn, rice...
- Apr 12, 2019
- 3 min
Tech’s potential lies downstream for South-east Asia’s small farms
When we imagine the farm of the future, it is exciting to picture a drone hovering over each plant carefully spraying chemicals on just...
- Mar 15, 2019
- 3 min
Learnings from the Grow Asia Country Partnership Secretariat Workshop
On 28 January – 1 February 2019, I had the privilege to again be part of the annual Grow Asia Secretariat Workshop that was held in...
- Mar 14, 2019
- 3 min
Insights from The Digital Directory
Over the past six months, I have worked with Grow Asia to interview and profile more than 60 businesses who are using technology to...
- Feb 14, 2019
- 4 min
The need for a paradigm shift to scale the impact of research
There is significant agricultural research being led and conducted in ASEAN. However, it is difficult for private sector actors to...
- Sep 7, 2018
- 4 min
Developing markets for Palm and Coconut Sugar in Southeast Asia
On 19th July, Grow Asia conducted a webinar to discuss learnings from the first comprehensive South East Asia study of the Palm and...
- Aug 23, 2018
- 3 min
Understanding the potential of digital applications for rice farmers in Indonesia
Digital platforms have the potential of supporting the livelihoods of smallholder farmers by improving their access to free, targeted,...
- Aug 14, 2018
- 2 min
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...
- Jun 25, 2018
- 3 min
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 7, 2018
- 3 min
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...
- May 16, 2018
- 2 min
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 10, 2018
- 3 min
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...
- Apr 26, 2018
- 3 min
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...
- Mar 21, 2018
- 3 min
“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 6, 2018
- 3 min
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...
- Feb 2, 2018
- 4 min
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...
- Dec 22, 2017
- 3 min
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...
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