Agroecology and Safe Food System Transitions in Southeast Asia (ASSET)

The project

The overall objective is to make food and agricultural systems in Southeast Asia more sustainable, safer, and inclusive through harnessing the potential of agroecology to transform them. This will be achieved through synergizing initiatives contributing to ASSET from local to regional levels.

The project will build upon

• Research for development processes in synergy with the regional research platforms, ASEA and MALICA
• The Agroecology Learning Alliance in Southeast Asia (ALiSEA)
• The ASEAN Lao facilitated Initiative for a regional Coaching of Agroecological transition in South East Asia (LICA)

It will engage with governments, civil society and the private sector (including small producers) to generate and transform knowledge into sustainable innovation processes and transformative policies, sensitive to youth and gender equality.

To achieve this, the project pursues the following specific operational goals.

Impact-oriented stakeholder engagement into agroecology and safe food system transitions 

• Strengthen ALiSEA through networking and sharing a common vision of the ASSET at national and regional levels
• Transform ALiSEA multimedia into a Knowledge Hub that serves as a major resource at regional level
• Raise awareness and build capacity through multimedia communication to a wide range of targeted audience.

Scaling up agroecological and safe food innovations from local to regional levels

• Co-design action research processes with local actors and support innovations at territorial level, considering youth and gender needs
• Design a common broad-based methodological framework for assessing performances and impacts of ASSET pathways
• Foster policy dialogues on agriculture, food, health and trade at national and regional levels.

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