Resources
Pitch Perfect: The Starch Value Chain Conference
The USDA-funded Thailand Regional Agriculture Innovation Network (#thaiRAIN) started building a reputation for its innovative methods. For example, to achieve the goal of promoting climate-smart innovation to 30,000 farmers, #thaiRAIN is focused on building effective business models and encouraging early adoption through existing supply chain actors. While it might have been easier to just give […]
The Chaiyaphum Experiment
For many cassava farmers in Thailand and the Greater Mekong Subregion, Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) has been a rapidly growing concern since its outbreak in 2018. The disease is economically lethal since affected plantations often suffer more than a 50 percent drop in yield from CMD infections and any infected cassava must be burned according […]
Climate Change and Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services
This brief discusses policy-level changes to enhance and strengthen the role and functioning of extension and advisory services (EAS) in addressing climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Climate+ Development without the Footprint
Development projects seek to empower disadvantaged communities and improve wellbeing. Unfortunately, these development initiatives rely on a combination of international flights, local vehicles, office generators, energy consumption, and many other activities that leave a carbon footprint, worsening climate change, harming ecological systems, and further damaging social and economic conditions. Climate+ enables a project to responsibly […]
Illuminating the Nature of Systemic Vulnerability to Cross-Border Human Trafficking: the Bangladesh-Malaysia Corridor
Millions of Bangladeshi citizens have migrated and continue to migrate internationally, generating important economic value for Bangladesh in the form of remittances as well as wealth, eventually brought home and invested in communities all over the country (Ranjan, 2016). However, those migrants are not sufficiently protected from exploitation, and many fall victim to trafficking in […]