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Precision farming, AI-powered pest detection, and drone-based imaging empower farmers to optimize resources and improve yields.
Without proper valuation, natural assets’ scarcity remains economically invisible, leading to their exploitation for short-term gains.
Promote remote processing of cargo clearances and modernize border facilities to improve intraregional trade in BIMSTEC.
In South Asia, stakeholders worked together to enhance integrated water resources management in mountainous river basins prone to precipitation extremes.
In the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, an urban water project helped women to become water engineers through scholarships, training, and mentoring.
The Maldives is adopting advanced low-carbon technologies to reduce emissions and diesel imports with the help of the Japan Fund for the Joint Crediting Mechanism.
To strengthen its skills base, the Philippines complemented basic education reforms with Germany’s system of dual vocational training.
A town in northeast Thailand looks into the feasibility of a design-build-operate scheme for developing a controlled landfill site.
In Nepal, a project looked at how biochar can improve soil health and crop yields and reduce the importation of carbon-intensive farm inputs.
Experts endorse 10 principles for risk mitigation, which include evacuation plans for medical and quarantine facilities and areas under lockdown.