CAPSA's GOAL
Alleviation of poverty through the development of secondary crops in Asia and the Pacific.

CAPSA PROMOTES

  • A supportive policy environment in member countries for the alleviation of poverty.
  • Projects to enhance the living conditions of rural poor populations in disadvantaged areas, particularly those who rely on secondary crops for their livelihood.
  • Agricultural research and development to alleviate poverty in the Asian and Pacific region.

  • THE LATEST

    Workshop on Food Security Assessment under Climate Change

    CAPSA-ESCAP, under a technical co-operation with the Government of Japan conducted a workshop on “Food Security Assessment under Climate Change”. This workshop is under the project entitled “Forecasting Food Security under El Nino in Asia & the Pacific” and it was hosted by our counterpart “Soil and Fertilizers Research Institute” in Hanoi, Viet Nam from 14 - 15 July 2010.


     

    Press Release No: G/35/2010:

    Nobel Laureate Urges Making Peace Part of the Development Agenda
     

    Professor Amartya Sen, the 1998 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences spoke on “Peace, Violence and Development in Modern Societies” in a lecture delivered at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok on  20 July 2010.

     
    New Papers

    Social Access and Social Protection for Food Security in Asia Pacific
    (CAPSA Occasional Paper No. 3)

    By Amitava Mukherjee and C. Upendranadh with contributions from Beverly Jones and Marco Roncarti

    This paper is on social protection, role of social protection in food security and the social policy challenges of ensuring access to food for all. It starts with a discussion of the significance of social protection in human development, followed by an examination of the demographic trends in the context of pressures on food security related to migration and changing dependency ratios. Migrants, both international and internal, ethnic minorities, tribal people and “other” discriminated groups are vulnerable to food insecurity.


     

    Food Insecurities Faced by Women and Girl Children
    (CAPSA Occasional Paper No. 2)

    by Dr. Amitava Mukherjee Ph. D.

    Two crops which have retained their importance from antiquity till today are rice and wheat. The Green Revolution in South Asia as in other parts of the world was primarily aimed at improving productivity of these crops and it did give the region the fruits of modern technology: better seeds, newer forms of fertilizers and more and newer methods of irrigation and ultimately, in consequence, increased availability of food. Yet millions are food insecure in South Asia. Why? Because achieving ‘food security’ means not just ensuring that sufficient food is available in the system, but also that everyone has economic, social, cultural and physical access to it and that food has adequate nutritive value.


     
    Community Based Responses to Food Insecurity
    (CAPSA Occasional Paper No. 1)

    by Dr. Amitava Mukherjee Ph. D. 

    This paper discusses how communities associate well-being with food security. The paper then presents a set of community responses to prevent food insecurity or deal with it once it sets in. Because, in some cases, communities respond to a given food insecurity situation in more than one way, the paper also includes a few examples of integrated community responses to deal with food insecurity. Policy conclusions are drawn based on these experiences.


     
    Sixth Session of the Governing Council of the Centre for Alleviation of Poverty through Secondary Crops Development in Asia and the Pacific (CAPSA), 23 March 2010, Bangkok, Thailand.

     
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    CAPSA FLASH Vol. 8, No. 1 (April 2010)
     
     
    Read our monthly bulletin(160KB)
    In this issue:

    Short article:  Energy Security vs. Food Security at the Cost of Secondary Crops - India's Experiences in Finding Solutions

    Book review:  Investing in Food Security

    Briefs and Breaking News

    PALAWIJA NEWS Vol. 27, No. 1 (April 2010)
      Read our research newsletter (220KB)
    In this issue:

    Article 1
    Food Security Assessment under Climate Change Scenario in Malaysia

    Article 2
    Fundamental Factors of Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development for Kone Taung Village Tract in Myanmar  

    Message from CAPSA

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    Adding value to fresh and processed produce through product certification.

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    Towards a joint regional agenda for the alleviation of poverty through agriculture and secondary crop development: proceedings of the regional meeting, Bangkok, 21-22 November 2007
     
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