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Community Organizations FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Acronym
FAO Asia & the Pacific
United Nations Agency

Location

Maliwan Mansion Phra Atit Road
10200
Bangkok
Thailand

The vision of the FAO office in Bangkok is a food-secure Asia and the Pacific region.


Its mission is to help member countries halve the number of undernourished people in the region by raising agricultural productivity and alleviating poverty while protecting the region’s natural resources base.


Agricultural growth in Asia-Pacific has stagnated in recent years, with a serious decline in agricultural investment, and depletion and degradation of natural resources in the face of continued population growth.


The benefits of the green revolution have now been fully realized and there are no revolutionary technologies on the horizon that can rapidly and sustainably reinvigorate agriculture.


Outward migration, especially of the young generation, has led to the "greying" and feminization of the sector; the coping mechanisms of poor households are few, given their limited assets and the fact that a deep recession occurred so soon after the food crisis.


Climate change will impact agriculture in many ways, particularly in areas vulnerable to natural disaster.


The opening of markets improved the mobility of people, goods and services and created employment opportunities for the labour-rich Asia-Pacific economies. At the same time the growing links within the region and with the rest of the world ushered in risks of transboundary plant pests and animal diseases.

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Proceedings of the regional workshop on strengthening urban and peri-urban agriculture towards resilient food systems in Asia, volume I

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2013
Asia

More than 50 senior representatives from 12 countries representing various sectors - health, agriculture (horticulture/livestock), fisheries, agricultural marketing, agricultural policy planning, urban development, NGOs, academia and industry - attended the regional workshop on strengthening urban and peri-urban agriculture towards resilient food systems in Asia.

Tigerpaper/Forest News

Reports & Research
November, 2013
Nepal
France
Equatorial Guinea
Bangladesh
Switzerland
China
Myanmar
Indonesia
Panama
Congo
India
Guinea
Pakistan
Republic of Korea
Thailand
Asia

Tigerpaper is a quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and natural resources management for the Asia-Pacific region. Forest News reports on FAO forestry activities in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tigerpaper/Forest News

Reports & Research
November, 2013
Nepal
France
Equatorial Guinea
Bangladesh
Switzerland
China
Myanmar
Indonesia
Panama
Congo
India
Guinea
Pakistan
Republic of Korea
Thailand
Asia

Tigerpaper is a quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and natural resources management for the Asia-Pacific region. Forest News reports on FAO forestry activities in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tigerpaper/Forest News

Reports & Research
November, 2013
Nepal
France
Equatorial Guinea
Bangladesh
Switzerland
China
Myanmar
Indonesia
Panama
Congo
India
Guinea
Pakistan
Republic of Korea
Thailand
Asia

Tigerpaper is a quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and natural resources management for the Asia-Pacific region. Forest News reports on FAO forestry activities in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tigerpaper/Forest News

Reports & Research
November, 2013
Switzerland
Israel
China
Sri Lanka
Bolivia
Pakistan
Niger
Thailand
Morocco
Malaysia
Haiti
Tanzania
Brunei Darussalam
India
Chad
Mexico
Saudi Arabia
Mongolia
Asia

Tigerpaper is a quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and natural resources management for the Asia-Pacific region. Forest News reports on FAO forestry activities in the Asia-Pacific region.