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Mobile apps enable farmers, including women smallholders, to modernize and diversify their production and transact with suppliers and buyers directly.
COP14 resolutions reinforce ADB’s mandate to support DMCs in meeting their obligations through strengthened safeguards.
In Pakistan, basmati rice farmers are adopting direct seeding technology to improve farm efficiency and yield.
A properly functioning market chain and flow of agricultural products are vital to ensuring food and nutrition security amid COVID-19.
Advances in information and communications technology offer economic opportunities for rural populations and can play a significant role in poverty reduction.
Indonesia could reduce the impact of a prolonged El Niño by easing food import restrictions and strengthening social protection and food security.
Nature-based solutions can prevent the next pandemic.
Initiatives should start by focusing on building awareness on the importance of oceans and coastal habitat.
The government is strengthening its economic foundations and upscaling food and nutrition and climate-resilient social assistance to address the country’s food insecurity.
Valuing GEP and implementing ecological compensation mechanism can enhance the sustainable finance mechanism of desert ecosystem restoration.