With more than 400 million farms, Asian agriculture is extremely diverse where tradition and modernity, oppression and unrest, ressource degradation and preservation (particularly for seeds) coexist. It is under huge economic and ecological pressure and suffers from chronic social fragility.
Other articles on Asia published on hungerexplained.org
15 November 2022 – Biogas, source of energy for small farmers in Asia, in the 1980s, has become a profitable commercial industry generating multiple risks – Boosted by the will to replace fossil fuels by agrofuels, the development of biogas production competes with traditional uses of agricultural commodities (food and feed). [read]
21 September 2016 – 100 000 premature deaths in South-East Asia: we are all responsible, but we prefer to look elsewhere. Our media are full of the horrors of ‘our enemies’, but we avoid carefully to face the dramatic consequences of our own behaviour. [read]
6 November 2015 – Fire in South-East Asia: a highly visible consequence of our failing food system – Little more than three weeks before COP21, in a quasi-general indifference, fire outbreaks that devastate Borneo constitute a symbol of the absurdity and violence of our global food system. [read]
February 2015 – Opinion: Institutions of the small farmers: What next? by Shyam Khadka. [read]
12 January 2015 – The Indian government intends to reform the Land Acquisition Act to make it more industry-friendly – Less stringent approvals by affected population, no more compulsory social impact assessment are part of the envisaged changes [read]
December 2014 – Opinion: Vietnam aspires to a sustainable agricultural transformation by Klaus Urban and Günther Feiler. [read]
15 January 2014 – In India, a first ‘‘environmental referendum’’ saves the Dongria Kondh – The Indian authorities cancel a mining project that threatened the Dongria Kondh tribe in Odisha. [lire]
8 December 2013- Bali: first agreement on agriculture since the creation of WTO – India will be able to implement its new food security law – Despite little hope to see an agrement at the time of the opening of the ministerial meeting in Bali, an agreement could be found at the last minute. [read]
11 November 2013 – India approves the largest ever food security programme – The Upper House of the Indian Parliament has recently approved a programme of around $20 billion that will help 800 million beneficiaries. [read]
14 September 2013 – And Yemen, what have we done for Yemen and its people? [read]
Earlier articles on Asia are only available in French on our Asie page.