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Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has become a central pillar of the Philippines’ strategy to address agricultural risks arising from climate variability and intensifying extreme weather events. As one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries, the Philippines has embedded climate...
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Geopolitical risks and military conflicts increasingly shape global food and energy systems, triggering ripple effects across agriculture, supply chains, and sustainability efforts. The Russia-Ukraine conflict and recent U.S.-Iran tensions have highlighted major disruptions to global...
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The palm oil industry is a major pillar of Indonesia’s economy, providing large-scale employment, generating substantial foreign exchange earnings, creating strong multiplier effects, and supporting regional economic growth and infrastructure development. Sumatra Island is one of...
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Taiwan faces compounding agricultural challenges: a subtropical climate prone to typhoons and drought, an aging farm workforce, shrinking arable land, and a food import dependency exceeding 60% of caloric supply. Against this backdrop, the government has progressively assembled a...
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Food-crop agricultural biomass in Indonesia is increasingly promoted as a renewable energy resource, often framed as abundant crop “waste” that can be converted. This paper explicitly focuses on crop residues from food-crop agriculture—such as rice, maize, and other staple crops—and...
