From Ridge-to-Reef: A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Biodiversity Conservation of Marine Resources in Batad, Iloilo, Philippines

Hene L. Hapinat
  ABSTRACT   The project primarily aimed to strengthen land, forest and reef management processes and biodiversity conservation on all terrestrial landscapes and marine and seascapes in Batad, Iloilo Philippines. This will be achieved through a community-based strategy having a ridge-...
Country: Philippines Topic: Eco-friendly agriculture (satoyama and satoumi)
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Technical problems on Japan’s pork imports from the US

Hiroshi Takahashi, Yoshihisa Godo
ABSTRACT Japan has a unique (and complicated) pork import tariff system, called the gate price system. Under this system, importers can minimize their tariff payments by combining high-price (and high-quality) pork with low-price (and low-quality) pork to set the CIF price at 524 yen per...
Country: Japan Topic: Import regulation and quarantine
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Classification and Grading of Green Coffee Beans in Asia

Atamurat Datov, Yuan-Chung Lin
INTRODUCTION Asian countries cultivate almost 28 % of the total coffee beans produced in the world (World Atlas, 2016). It’s known for producing some of the world’s greatest and most unique coffees. The taste of Vietnamese or Indonesian coffee, for example, are two flavors that some...
Country: Others Topic: Regional agricultural economy
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Climate-Smart Agricultural Initiatives in the Philippines

Fe B. Perlas
ABSTRACT Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach that helps to guide actions needed to transform and reorient agricultural systems to effectively support development and ensure food security in a changing climate. CSA aims to tackle three main objectives: sustainably increasing agricultural...
Country: Philippines Topic: Smart agriculture
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Certification System for Food Safety

Shunichi Matsui
ABSTRACT There are many food safety hazards that exist that make it difficult for experts to manage them perfectly. However, there are systematic methods of minimizing the occurrence of risks. One method is the third-party certification systems for food safety. This paper studies how the idea...
Country: Japan Topic: Food security and safety
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