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Dec. 01, 2020

Agricultural Policy Forum- Sustainable Agri-Food Systems Under and Beyond COVID-19

Nov. 05, 2020

The practice and benefits of circular agriculture in waste reducing and recycling

Oct. 29, 2020

Smart food value chain – the solution to Asia’s food distribution

Sep. 29, 2020

Crop resilience for adaptation to climate change: rice

Sep. 22, 2020

2020 Dragon Fruit Workshop and Steering Committee Meeting - Dragon Fruit Value Chain for Global Market

Sep. 18, 2020

Applicable solutions against rice blast in Asia

Oct. 29, 2019

International Symposium on Developing Innovation Strategies in the Era of Data-driven Agriculture

Oct. 24, 2019

International Symposium on Current trends and perspectives of IoT /AI technologies in livestock industry

Sep. 16, 2019

International Symposium on Implementing the Satoyama Initiative for the Benefit of Biodiversity and Human Well-being

Sep. 10, 2019

“Dragon Fruit Network: Marketing and the Whole Value Chain” And Steering Committee Meeting

FFTC’s project list for 2020

PUBLICATIONS

Newsletters

Newsletter 210: Circular agriculture experts meet

Experts who attended the recently concluded international symposium on circular agriculture talked about agri food loss, wastes, and innovative technologies for the reuse, recycling and value addition of agricultural wastes and residuals.

Books

Implementing the Satoyama Initiative for the Benefit of Biodiversity and Human Well-Being

The Center has recently added to its publication list the book entitled “Implementing the Satoyama Initiative for the Benefit of Biodiversity and Human Well-Being,” edited by former FFTC Director Dr. Kuo-Ching Lin and Dr. Kuang-Chung Lee, Associate Professor, National Dong Hwa University. The Satoyama book is a joint project of FFTC and the Hualien District Agricultural Research and Extension Station and Forestry Bureau of the Council of Agriculture (COA), Taiwan, together with the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, COA, and the International Partnership of Satoyama Initiative (IPSI). The 269-page book encapsulates the articles written by experts from different countries who shared their knowledge and experiences on topics like conserving biodiversity, economic forest plantation, community conserved areas, environmentally friendly agricultural technologies, ecological engineering, etc.

Books

ICTs for Precision Agriculture Focusing on Rice Production in the Asian and Pacific Region

Modernization of the agricultural processes is seen as one of the paths towards addressing the many issues of rice production, which is the major staple crop of people in the Asian Pacific Region. Through the integration and implementation of suitable Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) like smart phones, drones and robotics, precision agriculture can be harnessed and rice farmers will be more informed and empowered. To shed more light on this topic, in 2019, FFTC and the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) organized an international symposium on “ICTs for Precision Agriculture” and invited 12 rice scientists from eight countries (Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan and Malaysia) to present papers on technology packages and country reports on precision agriculture particularly focusing on ICTs. A year later, these papers are now re-edited and published into a book (144 pages) containing three major sections: 1) Understanding Precision Agriculture; 2) Technology Packages for Precision Agriculture; and 3) Precision Agriculture in Asia. Edited by FFTC Deputy Director Dr. Akira Hasbe and the late Zolkafli Bin Aris, Director of the Engineering Research Centre of MARDI, the book is now off the press and is also available online.