Sectoral Vision and Aims: Ensuring food security, producing comparative and competitive agricultural commodities, developing clean, safe and sustainable agriculture and shift...

As a result of the Lao PDR joining as member country of the FAO Regional Rice IPM Programme, the Lao National IPM programme was initiated in 1994. The farmer education programme...

From Uniformity to Diversity presents the case for moving away from industrial agriculture—dominated by monocultures, chemical inputs, and concentration of power—towards...

The Organic Agriculture Standards are designed promote Clean Agriculture within the agriculture and forestry sectors, and to ensure that the management of agriculture production...

This regulation defines the principles, rules, and measures for controlling activities that involve pesticides in Lao PDR in order to protect human, animal and plant health, and...

The Law on Agriculture has the function of establishing principles, rules, and measures regarding the organization and activities of agricultural production which is the basis...

After giving a general context on the need of this study and details on methodology, this paper present the current situation of Vietnam in relation to PGS. This study allows...

This paper summarizes the main findings of the GLAMUR project which starts with an apparently simple question: is local€ more sustainable than global€? Sustainability...

In rainfed lowland rice-based systems, increasing labour scarcity due to off-farm employment is encouraging farmers to switch from transplanting to dry direct seeding (DDS). To...

Article Biological control of an agricultural pest protects tropical forests€

To retrace the contribution of SOCLA to discussions at Rio+20 on issues at the interface of hunger, agriculture, environment and social justice (this paper is the paper position...

This case study presents a solar drying dome, a low-cost, energy-efficient solution originally developed by Silpakorn University in Thailand . Made from durable polycarbonate,...

AFLI project aims to increase the productivity of smallholder farming systems in northwest Viet Nam, while also conserving the natural resource base. The project introduces...

Given the increasing scope and impacts of environmental pollution and food poisonings in Vietnam since its agricultural sector started with further intensification with more...

The government of Myanmar and the Netherlands intend to start a partnership programme in different agricultural sectors, including horticulture. In October 2014 the Director...

The document “Multiple Pathways: Case Studies of Sustainable Agriculture in China” (IIED, 2015) presents eight detailed case studies of ecological and organic farming...

California’s central coast differs from many agricultural areas in the U.S., which feature large tracts of monoculture production fields and relatively simple landscapes. Known...

Considerable controversy continues to exist in scientific and policy circles about how to tackle issues of global hunger, malnutrition, and rural economic decline, as well as...

The document is a case study from Cambodia showing how the Natural Agriculture Village Shop, promotes agroecology by linking farmers and markets. It highlights strategies like...

Small Farm Resource Centers (SFRCs) coordinate trials on a central site as well as on fields of individual farmers. Any new ideas, techniques, or crops are first evaluated at...