Agriculture and Food Security Facts and Figures
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Emergency Support for Chin State Livelihoods Restoration Project in Myanmar
The project aims to help seven of the most affected townships of Chin State when Cyclone Komen hit Myanmar in 2015. -
Enhancing Rural Livelihoods and Incomes in Myanmar
Enhancing Rural Livelihoods and Incomes Project (ERLIP) aims to improve productivity and enhance livelihoods through a community-driven development approach. -
Agriculture Placing Huge Demands on Water: Asia's Thirst for Food
Agriculture is placing the biggest demands on water in Asia and the Pacific, as rising populations, rapid urbanization, and energy, industrial, and domestic use have left water stocks in a critical state. -
Climate Change and Food Security in Asia
Climate change poses a major challenge for agriculture in Asia and the Pacific. Given its role in employment, economic development, and global food security, adverse impacts on agriculture are of particular concern. -
Investing in Food and Agriculture in Asia and the Pacific
Two-thirds of the world’s hungry reside in Asia and the Pacific, and food insecurity persists bringing the specter of hunger and undernutrition to millions more of the region’s poor. -
Sowing the Seeds of Food Security
Innovative solutions for food security can help feed 9 billion people by 2050. -
Food Security - Asia's Two Faces
While Asia's economic growth and structural transformation deepen the complexity in managing limited natural resources for food security, many pockets of Asia continue to struggle with high levels of poverty and poor nutrition. -
Gender Equality and Food Security - Women's Empowerment as a Tool against Hunger
Persistent gender inequalities that prevail in the Asia-Pacific region constrain women’s potential for contributing more effectively to agriculture, rural development, food and nutrition security. -
Getting More Value from Your Food
As we celebrate World Environment Day, how you value your food can help shape a sustainable future. -
Food Security in Asia and the Pacific
The world is facing a perilous convergence of depleting natural resources - of water, good land, energy, nutrients, technology, fish and stable climates.