Policy Dialogue: Strengthening Social and Sustainability Sciences in Higher Education, Research and Extension for Green, Climate Resilient Agri-Food Systems in ASEAN to Meet SDGs
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APAARI Policy Dialogue Strengthening Social Sciences in ASEAN Agri-Food Education
1. Asia-Pacific Association of
Agricultural Research Institutions
Policy Dialogue
Strengthening Social and Sustainability Sciences in Higher Education,
Research and Extension for Green, Climate Resilient Agri-Food Systems in ASEAN
to Meet SDGs
Dr. Ravi Khetarpal
Asia Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions
Bangkok
2. APAARI
âą Established in 1990
âą Initiative of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and most of the
National Agricultural Research Institutions (NARSs) and National Agricultural Research
Organizations of the Asia-Pacific Region
4. APAARI Vision 2030
Strengthened Agri-food research and innovations for sustainable agricultural development in Asia
and the Pacific
5. APAARIâs Strength
âą Knowledge brokering
âą Forward thinking/foresight
âą Building & sustaining partnerships/ links
âą Effective communication for multi-stakeholders including education system
âą Enabling extended agri-business and agri-services value chains
âą Bringing APR perspective on investment in AR4D
âą Professionalism with a human face, commitment and consistency of action,
and transparency and openness in action
6. Asia-Pacific Association of
Agricultural Research Institutions
Challenges to documenting and improving agriculture
education, research and training in higher education
institutions (HEIs) and research organizations
Challenges
7. Asia-Pacific Association of
Agricultural Research Institutions
Key policy issues that must be addressed to better
support higher education reform and the
strengthening of social and sustainability sciences
in particular
Policy Issues
8. Asia-Pacific Association of
Agricultural Research Institutions
Best practices in higher education innovation, reform
and partnerships with farmers already exist, can be
improved, adapted to in local circumstances and
scaled up
Best Practices
9. Asia-Pacific Association of
Agricultural Research Institutions
Multi-stakeholder working to improve HEIs and
strengthen capacities for agriculture and food
systems education and research
Multi-stakeholder Working
11. Asia-Pacific Association of
Agricultural Research Institutions
Policy issues
Wide gap between academia and policy makers
Development policies can not be standalone
Policy implementation with resource crunch
Policy of marrying education with functional skills often missing
12. Asia-Pacific Association of
Agricultural Research Institutions
Best practices
Need an extensive documentation
Need for Knowledge Hubs linking education with agri food innovation
Earth University model available but uptake limited
13. Asia-Pacific Association of
Agricultural Research Institutions
Best practices
Need an extensive documentation
Need for Knowledge Hubs linking education with agri food innovation
Earth University model available but uptake limited
14. Asia-Pacific Association of
Agricultural Research Institutions
Multi-stakeholder Working
Easier said than done
All stakeholders may not converge for collective action
Need for a functional stakeholder mapping
Bottom-up approach can make noise and impact
15. Asia-Pacific Association of
Agricultural Research Institutions
Concluding Thoughts
Policy makers, implementers and enablers may or may not see eye to
with each other
Let HEIs and Research and Development organizations feel the need for
each other
Let us say â We can do it!
APAARI is committed in this mission
16. To Sum up
Social and sustainable science need to marry natural science
HEIs need revamping It is difficult to be simple
Knowledge landscape