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NEWS
& EVENTS
FROM ASIA
This page provides news and events
and activities
from Urban
Harvest in Asia and some UPA
partners activities.
News and
Events
Hanoi Stakeholder Meeting, June 2000
Stakeholder
and policy dialogue in Manila
Research-private
sector link in Integrated Pest Management
Pigs
Contribute to Livelihoods and a Better Environment
in Hanoi (in the latest Enewsletter)
Philippines
Government to Help Jasmine Growers (in the
latest Enewsletter)
Urban
Harvest Projects in Vietnam and Philippines
 CIAT/CIP-led
project in Hanoi, Vietnam, on enhancing the
contribution of crop-livestock systems and
agro-processing to sustainable livelihoods in peri-urban
Hanoi
CIP-led project on “Assessing potentials for
improving waste water management by peri-urban
starch processing enterprises in north Vietnam”
AVRDC-CIRAD project in Hanoi, Vietnam on “Quality
assurance of agricultural products in peri-urban
Hanoi”
UPWARD and University of the Philippines-led
research in urban and peri-urban Manila, Philippines
into an agro-enterprise cluster based on sampaguita
(jasmine) garland-making.
Some
UPA partners activities
Markets
and Agricultural Linkages for Cities in Asia
Urban and Peri-urban
Agriculture in Metro Manila
GIS-based Urban Environmental
Resources Management and Food Security
Improving
agri-based livelihood in metro Manila
The dynamics of rural areas in
zones under the influence of secondary urban centers
in Vietnam and Cambodia
Environmental
and health effects of untreated waste water when it
is used for fish and crop production
Stakeholder
and policy dialogue in Manila
Through a
Urban Harvest meeting with Secretary of Agriculture
and senior advisors, a broad dialogue has been
established amongst national and municipal
authorities in Manila for UPA interventions. This
links to the Bureau of Agricultural
Research-supported national Urban Agriculture
Program in which Urban Harvest is represented
through the UPWARD
coordinator. An important area of discussion
concerns the analysis of national and local policies
affecting UPA.
The
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)
has officially recognized the jasmine
flower industry (locally known s Sampaguita) in
Manila. During a meeting with Bureau of Plant
Industry, UPLB, PCARRD, and other departments of
DSWD, Urban Harvest explained the importance of the
jasmine flower industry and its contribution to
income generation. Furthermore, the DSWD
proposed to separate an area within the Wildlife
Parks of the city as a showcase for sampaguita.
This would show how the plant is grown, how garlands
are made, and what different products can be made
from the plant.
The official acknowledgment of the sampaguita
industry will contribute to sustain and legitimize
the industry. Continuing
dialogue with the Philippines government would
promote the possibility of strengthening and
expanding the urban agriculture agenda in Manila. This is very possible since the Secretary of the DSWD, Dinky
Soliman, said that urban agriculture ‘could play
an important role in their poverty alleviation
programs for the urban poor.’
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Research-private sector link in
Integrated Pest Management
Results of the IPM trials from the sampaguita
project were presented by Urban Harvest at the recent convention of the Pest
Management Council of the Philippines. This has
elicited interest from both the research community
and the chemical industry. Of particular concern is
the lack of any recommended/approved chemical
products to control sampaguita pest. As a result,
the National Crop Protection Center and the
association of chemical companies are organizing a
special forum on sampaguita IPM in May 2004. The
forum is aimed at reaching a specific policy
recommendation -- protocols/chemical brands to be
officially approved by the Fertilizer and Pesticide
Auhority. This would legitimize whatever IPM
recommendation that may arise from the on-going
project trials.
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Some UPA
Partners Activities
Markets
and Agricultural Linkages for Cities in Asia
Centre
de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique
pour le développement, CIRAD:
Sustainable
development of peri-urban farmingCIRAD is one of the
international partners involved in the MALICA consortium
- Markets and Agricultural Linkages for Cities in
Asia. This consortium brings French and Vietnamese research
institutes together to reinforce the capacity of researchers, students,
administrators as well as private groups in
analysing food markets and
city/country relations. Local partners include the IOS – the Institute of
Sociology of the National Centre of Social Sciences and Humanities, the RIFAV
– the Research Institute on Fruits and Vegetables,
the VASI – the Vietnam
Agricultural Science Institute, as well as the Hanoi
Agricultural and Forestry University and the Agricultural and Forestry University of Ho Chi Minh City.
Methods are applied to projects which aim at a correlation between local
food production and local market demand, in terms of
both quantity and
quality, such as the project on Sustainable
Development of Peri-urban Agriculture in South-east
Asia (SUSPER), or the project about food behaviour and risk
perception. Stakeholders’ information and
cooperation mechanisms are taken
into consideration as a complement to classical
technical and economic efficiency analysis of different stages in the commodity chains.
Methods of consumption and commodity chainanalysis
are applied to two priority research fields:
increasing quality in the food sector; and the comparative
advantages of periurban and rural flows. The main
activities over the past year have
focused on the application of these methods to the
vegetable, pork and wheat commodity chains and the analysis of the wholesale markets. Contact:
malica@fpt.vn
To
download recent MALICA
and SUSPER
papers see our tools
and methods section
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Urban
and Peri-urban Agriculture in Metro Manila
The Asian
Vegetable Research and Development Center,
AVRDC: Urban
and Peri-urban Agriculture in Metro Manila:
Resources and Opportunities for Food
Production
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GIS-based
Urban Environmental Resources Management and Food
Security
GIS-based
Urban Environmental Resources Management and Food
Security Project: a partnership project between
Germany, Belgium, and the Philippines within the
framework of the Asia Urbs Program of
the European Commission. The project includes the
components of integrated solid waste management,
allotment gardens, and Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) in the urban context of urban natural
resource management and urban agriculture.
To
read more about the project please visit the project
website: http://www.puvep.com/asiaurbs.htm
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Improving
agri-based livelihood in metro Manila
Users'
Perspectives With Agricultural Research and
Development, UPWARD: improving
agri-based livelihood in metro Manila
The
dynamics of rural areas in zones under the
influence of secondary urban centers in
Vietnam and Cambodia
FAFO
- the Norwegian Institute for Applied Social Science is currently involved in a research project whose main objective is to
analyze the dynamics of rural areas in zones under
the influence of secondary urban centers in Vietnam
and Cambodia. The project will analyze the
differential effects of the development of secondary
cities on the surrounding rural areas both in terms
of the structuring of the area and land dynamics and
in terms of the evolution of consumers' demands and
the capacity of local agriculture to meet them.
Based on these analyses, it will also contribute to
the debates on city-country balance in national
development strategies and territorial planning
policies.
For more information please consult the project
website or write an email to the contact person
for this project: C.Gironde at christophe.gironde@fafo.no
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Environmental
and health effects of untreated waste water when it
is used for fish and crop production
The Centre for Natural Resources and
Environmental Studies in Hanoi, Vietnam
(with support from IDRC
Canada) has conducted a study on the environmental
and health effects of untreated waste water when it
is used for fish and crop production. To read more
about this study please
click
here.
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