Policy Articles

An Analysis of the Palm Industry’s Development, Regulations, and Practices in Indonesia

Edyta Zmudczynska , Effendi Andoko
2019.07.11
INTRODUCTION   World palm oil production is dominated by Indonesia and Malaysia, which supply 85-90% of the world's total palm oil production. Indonesia is the largest producer and exporter of palm oil. This industry also contributes the largest foreign exchange to Indonesia, which is...
Country: Indonesia Topic: Agriculture
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Towards Liberation from Debts of Filipino Farmers

Sharie Al-Faiha A. Lubang
2019.07.11
ABSTRACT   Agriculture is a critical sector in the economic landscape of the Philippines. It has an active role to national development, particularly on rural development. However, the industry is largely characterized by small-scale family farm holdings. Majority of farmers are poor...
Country: Philippines Topic: Farmers' welfare and retirement system
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From Ridge-to-Reef: A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Biodiversity Conservation of Marine Resources in Batad, Iloilo, Philippines

Hene L. Hapinat
2019.06.28
  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
2019.06.28
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
2019.06.18
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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