Higher Education for Sustainable Agriculture (HESA) in Southeast Asia
This group will assess challenges, capacities, best practices and policy options on Higher Education for Sustainable Agriculture (HESA) in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region while exchanging knowledge, and exploring interdisciplinary curriculum reform, teaching and research-extension needs as a contribution to strengthening regional poverty reduction, food/nutritional security and environmental protection.
Modern, conventional agriculture integrated with a global agri-food system contributes to many global environmental problems while malnutrition, hunger and poverty persist amid other serious...
Interview in connection to the Social and Sustainability Science in ASEAN conference, co-arranged by the SIANI Higher Education for Sustainable Agriculture (HESA) Expert Group.
Read this impact story of how SIANI has improved higher education for sustainable agriculture and food systems in Southeast Asia.
This final workshop Report summarizes main results of the ASEAN Technical Meeting and Multi-Stakeholder Policy Dialogue December 6-7, 2017. However, the report is UNOFFICIAL and does NOT represent...
This is a preliminary conference report from the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Conference January 23-25 at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. The theme of the conference...
Jim Cano from YPARD Philippines presents a 5-fold strategy for empowering youth and improving education to move towards agricultural development.
Executive Director of the IRDF, Arze Glipo, discusses the organisation's strategies towards sustainable agriculture and food sovereignity. The needs and recommendations for future work are also...
Wayne Nelles from the Chulalongkorn University School of Agricultural Resources (CUSAR) presents an overview of the context and importance for achieving SDGs in southeast Asia with a focus on...
Chris Paneiro from MASIPAG, a farmer-led network working towards the sustainable management of biodiversity, presents how the organisation is empowering farmers and improving their livelihoods in...
The Agricultural Training Insitute's (ATI) perspectives on achieving SDG's and how to improve investments and government policy towards higher agricultural education in SE Asia.
Teodoro Mendoza from the University of Philippines, Los Baños (UPLB) discusses the challenges in incorporating sustainability into agricultural education curriculums in southeast Asia in order to...