APIP Archives-Good Practices

• Efforts are under way to direct greater focus to Brunei Darussalam’s agriculture sector, in order to both improve food security and create a niche in the global market.
• To overcome its dependency on food imports, which account for 80% of the national food supply, the sultanate aims to achieve self-sufficiency by increasing capacity while continuing to specifically target halal foods.
• In 2013, the government launched a series of initiatives for enhancing the position of agriculture, including increasing livestock production to lower the significant imports of livestock from Australia.
• The country has constructed a Halal Science Centre, which will launch its operations in July 2014.
• By 2015, it is expected that 60% self-sufficiency will be achieved.

Reference

• http://www.oxfordbusinessgroup.com/news/adding-value-agriculture-brunei-darussalam link

• Summary of High Level Policy Dialogue on Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in Response to Climate Change.pdf 

• Developing Key Components of Plant Factory.pdf

Despite its importance, the new way of farming facility has been developed slowly due to high cost and small scale of the most facilities. Nevertheless, business opportunities for this new farming system are unlimited. In conjunction with techniques and knowledge databases developed from others, this thematic program will try to find solutions for reducing manpower and energy inputs.

• No.8 Introduction of Bio-pesticide and Bio-fertilizer Regulations in APO Countries.pdf

  In this report, Dr. Ying Yeh have collected and shown the data included different countries' laws, regulatory and methods of Bio-pesticide and Bio-fertilizer. Not only the data but also point out the differences between countries and international agencies, analyzing each APO Countries Regulations' advantage and disadvantage.
  After analyzing APO Countries Regulations, Dr. Ying Yeh brings out the solution and new progress for Bio-pesticide and Bio-fertilizer Regulation, "Develop Scheme" with complete stream, which is rigorous, simplified and necessary for bio-pesticide and bio-fertilizer regulation formed.

• Food Security and Rice Market: Global Trends and Regional Perspectives.pdf

Instability is the real problem of food security. Currently, the global trend of food supply/demand has become much more volatile than decades ago, especially in East Asia. The rapidly changing role of rice, the staple food of this region, has affected most countries’ market stability.
Both price crisis and policy reactions have adverse consequences for the poor and for long-term stability & efficiency of food system.
Despite the rapid transformation of Asian economies, and the dropping output share of rice, it still remains its position for people in Asia.
After all, structural transformation takes generations to happen.

• Development of Green Productivity in Agriculture in Chinese Taipei.pdf

Tsai Yi Fong, the researcher from Council of Agriculture, first introduces basic environment and land information followed by current agriculture status. Finally, he points out the future and ongoing development of green productivity here in Chinese Taipei.

• Curricular Economy in Agriculture at Hanbo Farm.pdf

20 years ago, Han Bao agricultural and animal husbandry chairman Xiuxiong Chen began to try to produce biogas by animal excrements. He use anaerobic to transform methane to gas; use gas to   generate electric power to help the piglets keeping warm in the winter through biogas.
In animal husbandry, it’s unavoidable to produce waste in the feeding process; it often discharged into the river and caused large pollution to environment.
It is expected to promote pig farmers to convert pig manure into a wide range of energy reuse and improve river water quality. Hanbo farm has wind power, solar panels and green biogas of green energy. This presentation provides information of curricular economy of Hanbo farm and detail of transformation, including machines, technics and experience.

• Chinese Taipei reported efforts to enhance logistics services capabilities of Free Trade Zones by using information and communication technology. Chinese Taipei has also developed a new cold-chain transportation technology to facilitate the transportation of frozen goods. Over 30 companies have utilized this technology so far.

Reference

• https://www.apec.org/Publications/2014/10/APECs-Bogor-Goals-Progress-Report-2014

North Dakota Farmers Union, USA, showed good examples of “Dakota Pride” program which started in 1998 to improve income opportunities for farmers and disseminate value-added farming in North Dakota. The union has more than 250 members and runs several farm restaurants connecting member farmers and local citizens. All menus are made by member’s products and all food loss/wastes are recycling.

• North Dakota Farmers Union.pdf

• “TiVA（Trade in Value-Added）database contains estimates of the added value by country and by industry and shows that Agri-food products have relatively lower foreign value added contents in exports and agricultural value chain is relatively shorter than manufacturing industries. In a GVC, trade costs can be magnified via various forms of import and export restrictions, inefficient and unnecessary border procedures, non-tariff measures and so forth. It was reported that Global agri-food market environments are rapidly changing and policy changes are needed to adapt more to the current situation.
• TiVA-GVCs: preliminary Analysis of Food & Agriculture Value Chains Reference

• http://www.oecd.org/sti/ind/measuringtradeinvalue-addedanoecd-wtojointinitiative.htm link

• During the period 2002-2012, in an effort to increase the number of partnerships involving the private sector to benefit smallholder farmers, IFAD financed 18 projects with components on coffee value-chain development in 15 countries: Ecuador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Indonesia, Liberia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, the Dominican Republic, Viet Nam and Yemen.
• With IFAD support, small-scale producers were able to overcome the constraints related to lack of access to inputs, equipment and rural financial services. In addition, training strengthened smallholder farmers to better engage with other chain stakeholders and to be more fully market-compliant, as well as to improve their farming practices. For example, IFAD’s support enabled smallholders to overcome issues such as water scarcity, drought and limited access to information related to pests and diseases, and promoted solutions to overcoming these problems.

Reference

• http://www.ifad.org/pub/factsheet/value_chain/commodity_coffee.pdf link

• During the period 2002-2012, in an effort to increase the number of partnerships involving the private sector to benefit smallholder farmers, IFAD financed 16 projects with components on cocoa value-chain development in 12 countries: the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Indonesia, Liberia, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands and Viet Nam.
• With IFAD support, small-scale producers were able to overcome the constraints related to a lack of access to inputs, equipment and rural finance. In addition, training strengthened the skills of smallholder farmers to allow them to better engage with other chain stakeholders and be more market- compliant, as well as to improve their farming practices, such as the pruning of cocoa trees and the controlling of shade, and their post- harvest activities, such as the storing of crops and accessing of markets.

Reference

• http://www.ifad.org/pub/factsheet/value_chain/commodity_cocoa.pdf link

• During the period 2002-2012, in an effort to increase the number of partnerships involving the private sector to benefit smallholder farmers, IFAD financed six projects with components on tea value-chain development in four countries: China, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda and Sri Lanka.
• The investment ranged from providing access to appropriate equipment to providing training and capacity-building to small-scale tea producers and their organizations. Additional support was provided to improve access to rural financial services, to develop local infrastructure (including roads, water systems and small-scale irrigation), to broaden community services (including literacy programmes) and to develop marketing facilities.
• With IFAD support, small-scale farmers were able to overcome challenges such as:
  • access to inputs
  • difficulty in complying with the standards for organic certification
  • a lack of transport for their products
  • a lack of training to improve skills in tea husbandry and crop management
  • access to new machinery

Reference

• http://www.ifad.org/pub/factsheet/value_chain/commodity_tea.pdf link