Originally posted August 9, 2018 in the ASTI website blog.
In the Indo-Pacific region—the latest area of ASTI work, supported by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)—one of ASTI’s strategic goals is to coordinate the implementation of an analytical research agenda focused on agricultural research investment capacities and policy developments.
In July, the Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) co-facilitated a workshop in collaboration with the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development in Bogor, Indonesia to identify priority user-driven research areas for the region and to design ways to transform the results of the research into stakeholder-friendly applications.
About 15 agricultural researchers and representatives from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Indonesia attended the workshop, which was held from 9-10 July 2018. These three countries are ideal to lead the discussion, as they all have established, in-country research agencies which support the analysis of agricultural data. (more…)
October 18, 2017.
A number of countries are taking initiative with ASTI data collection and outreach--institutionalizing the data collection process, disseminating the results, and embedding the data in national policy and decision-making platforms to maximize their use and accessibility. (more…)
May 21, 2018.
At the ASTI launch workshop in Sri Lanka, held late April at the University of Peradeniya, organizers from the university’s Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Administration brought nearly 30 representatives from agricultural research agencies around the country together to discuss the status and trends of agricultural research investment in Sri Lanka, clarify the methodology of the ASTI data collection process, and encourage completion and submission of surveys for the current data collection round. (more…)
