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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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nurturing a community of practitioners

JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Last week, Grow Asia held its second Practitioners’ Workshop in Jakarta. The event gathered nearly 80 partners from...

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