Agroecology for Southeast Asia - ASEA

For several decades, ASEAN countries have been following different intensification pathways due to growing demand for agricultural products that has prompted the simplification of family farming and agricultural landscapes, increasing vulnerability to climate change. Farming system vulnerability has been exacerbated in some agroecological zones in which most agriculture is rain-fed and climate change has a potentially major influence on productivity and profitability. Depending on their respective history, demographic changes, economic development models and the agroecological potential of their landscapes, agricultural intensification has evolved at a different pace and had variable ecological and social impacts across the region. With a fast-growing population, increased pressure on its natural resources and ever more present climate change impacts, Southeast Asia is at a crossroads regarding its agricultural development, which now calls for a major shift towards an agroecological transition.