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The ALISEA Knowledge Hub is a digital platform for agroecology and food systems transition in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Explore our technical resources in English and national languages and regional expertise to support agroecology transition, food systems transformation and sustainable agriculture.
This dataset showcases “The ‘Do All’ Biochar Wood Vinegar Kiln”, a practical and efficient design that allows small-scale farmers to produce both biochar and wood vinegar from agricultural waste. Developed at the ECHO Asia Farm in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the kiln supports sustainable farming practices. This initiative is part of the ALiSEA Small Grant Facility 2023, which aims to strengthen biochar producer networks across the region.
This practice brief highlights how the Youth Agroecology Caravan (YAC) strengthens youth engagement in agroecology through field visits, peer learning, and knowledge exchange. The initiative helps young farmers, students, and agricultural practitioners develop practical skills, expand professional networks, and apply agroecological innovations in their communities. It demonstrates the important role of experiential learning in promoting sustainable agriculture among young people.
This technical leaflet presents a simple method for producing natural pest repellent using locally available materials such as chili, galanga, turmeric, EM and plant leaves. The practice helps reduce chemical pesticide use, lowers production costs, and promotes sustainable agroecological farming.
This dataset includes two short videos produced under the Youth Agroecology Caravan (YAC) programme in Cambodia, a field-based learning initiative that supports young farmers to explore agroecological practices through farm visits and peer exchange. The videos relate to key topics addressed during the training, including reducing the use of chemical inputs, making use of farm resources, and diversifying production systems to support more sustainable farming and livelihoods.
This manual presents guidelines for the adoption of Kyusei Nature Farming and tTechnology of Effective Microorganisms. The guidelines are not meant to be absolute instructions for the use of effective microorganism. In contrast, the guidelines stated herein need to be adapted and utilized on the basis of environments, resources available and the rate of adoption.
This report, published with co-funding from the EU-German CAPSAFE project, provides an in-depth assessment of the current status, key constraints, and sustainable development opportunities within Cambodia’s pepper value chain. Although Cambodia is home to the world-renowned Kampot pepper, which holds Geographical Indication (GI) status, the sector continues to face major challenges due to limited domestic processing capacity, resulting in most raw pepper being exported informally to neighboring countries such as Vietnam and Thailand. The analysis shows that pepper production has declined since 2018, largely due to the impacts of extreme weather, while cultivation remains concentrated in the border provinces of Tboung Khmum, Mondulkiri, and Ratanakiri. The report proposes strategic actions to strengthen farmer capacity, improve business linkages, and expand digital traceability systems to support the positioning of branded Cambodian pepper in high-value international markets.
This document provides a comprehensive assessment of the current status, operations, and management capacity of forestry and agroforestry cooperatives in Vietnam. The content analyzes both opportunities and key challenges faced by these cooperatives, including limited access to finance, technology, sustainable forest certification, and the capacity to participate in global value chains. Based on these findings, the report proposes solutions for sustainable business partnerships, digital transformation, and enhanced business capacity, while contributing to climate change adaptation and greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
Although Voluntary Sustainability Standards have gained traction in promoting more sustainable food production and value chains, their impacts are not always conclusive. Building on actor-network theory, our aim was to analyze the translation of sustainability ideals promoted by the Sustainability Rice Platform (SRP) proponents into grounded agricultural practices and their outcomes on various dimensions of sustainability. To this end, we used a mixed-method and multi-scale approach that combined analysis of SRP governance documents and implementation tools, and a detailed case study conducted in Kampong Thom province, Cambodia. Fieldwork included participant observation, in-depth interviews with SRP proponents, semi-structured interviews with farmers and local stakeholders (n = 57), and quantitative assessment of SRP sustainability outcomes based on a randomized controlled survey of households (n = 275). Our findings underscore exclusionary outcomes in SRP processes, namely the consolidation of hegemonic positions within the supply chain and the limitation of smallholder farmers’ autonomy in decision-making and implementation. Additionally, the paper reveals the absence of impacts of SRP farming practices on the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability. We argue that sustainability, or the lack thereof, is instead a contingent outcome of local agrarian circumstances shaped by historically embedded agrarian dynamics. Our paper contributes to ongoing discussions on agricultural innovations and cautions against solutions that do not tackle the political cause of unsustainable development.
