SEARCA News

SEARCA has announced the winners of the 2014 photo contest with the theme Climate Change and Agriculture in Southeast Asia: Faces of Vulnerability and Resilience. The contest, which ran from 15 September to 30 November 2014, received 1225 entries submitted by 341 photographers from all 11 countries in Southeast Asia—Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste, and Vietnam. SEARCA Photo Contest 2014 awarded entries that best captured how vulnerable Southeast Asian agricultural communities are to climate change or what these communities are doing to respond to the challenges of climate change… Read more

His Excellency Prof. Dr. Pham Vu Luan, Minister of Education and Training of Vietnam and President of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) Council, lauded Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) for its contributions to SEAMEO and to research and training in agriculture and forestry in the region during his visit to the Center on 26 January 2015… Read more

LOS BAÑOS, Philippines – Mr. Benoit Thierry, Country Programme Manager, and Mr. Yolando Arban, Country Programme Officer, both from the Asia and the Pacific Division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) visited SEARCA on 27 January 2015 to explore potential areas of renewed collaboration with the Center… Read more

BATTAMBANG CITY, CAMBODIA – The sixth offering of the “Executive Forum on Leadership Excellence in Academe Program for Southeast Asia (LEAP SEA)” kicked off on 26 January 2015 in the campus of the University of Battambang (UBB) in Battambang City, Cambodia. The forum is co-organized by SEARCA and UBB… Read more

LOS BAÑOS, Philippines – The ASRF Program Steering Committee (ASRF PSC) evaluated the shortlisted proposals under the ASRF Second Call for Proposals and discussed other activities for the remaining 11 months of the program’s pilot phase on 22 January 2015 at SEARCA… Read more

CHIANG MAI, Thailand – Mr. Var Sophal bested nine others, when he bagged the 3rd best poster award at the 1st International Conference on Asian Highland Natural Resources Management (AsiaHiLand) and 2nd IDRC-SEARCA Upland Fellowship Plus Conference held on 7-9 January 2015 at The Empress Convention Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand… Read more

CHIANG MAI, Thailand – The Southeast Asian Upland Agriculture Fellowship, a collaborative project of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada and the Southeast Asian Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), recently concluded its 2nd IDRC-SEARCA Annual Fellowship Plus Conference held on 7-9 of January 2015 at the Empress Hotel Chiang Mai, Thailand… Read more

BANGKOK, Thailand – Eleven graduate scholars of the Upland Agriculture Fellowships Project of SEARCA and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada became the second batch of recipients of the English Language Course being organized by SEAMEO centers, SEARCA and Regional Language Center (RELC) in collaboration with Kasetsart University (KU), Thailand… Read more

The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and Nagoya University (NU), Japan signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Academic Cooperation in Education and Research on 18 December 2014. Under the agreement, SEARCA and NU commit to collaborate on a number of activities to pursue common education and research objectives. This MOU renews and updates the Memorandum of Agreement signed by SEARCA and NU in 1983… Read more

A group from the Fenner School of Environment and Society of the College of Medicine, Biology and Environment of the Australian National University (ANU) visited SEARCA on 2 December 2014. Led by Dr. Robert Dyball, Lecturer at the Human Ecology Program and President of the Society for Human Ecology, the group included PhD Candidates Mr. Federico Davila, Ms. Jennifer Marie Sunga-Amparo, and Ms. Deborah Cleland. They were accompanied by representatives of the College of Human Ecology of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (CHE-UPLB), the local host of the group… Read more