DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 3 OCTOBER 2021

YOUth take the spotlight again! Join the 2021 SEARCA Youth COVIDeo Contest with cash prizes awaiting video entries with the most informative and engaging response to the question: How can young people contribute to sustainable food consumption and food waste management?

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SEARCA joins the nation in celebrating the 19th Development Policy Research Month this September. This year's theme, "Reset and Rebuild for a Better Philippines in the Post-Pandemic World," emphasizes the need to rest our paradigms and practices by balancing the interests of people, profit, and planet or by placing equal importance on economic, social, and environmental well-being and sustainability.

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On the Archipelagic Ecology and the Economy of the Philippines
Seeing the sea for its value as a vaster ecosystem platform (than land) for the country’s pandemic recovery and post-pandemic national development and security interests

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The Emerging Innovation for Growth (EIG) Program is a new flagship initiative of SEARCA to ATTAIN Agriculture 4.0 under its 11th FYP.

Learn more how EIG is fueled by the "SEARCA innovEIGhts model" of open collaboration bolstered by Academe-Industry-Government (AIG) interconnectivity.

SEARCA, in partnership with East-West Seed, Sensient Colors, and UPLB, co-sponsors the nationwide competition Innovation Olympics 2.0

With the theme, "Precision agriculture for small-scale vegetable farming," the IO 2.0 challenges the youths to craft innovations to help improve the welfare of smallholder vegetable farmers.

In July 2020, SEARCA embarked on its five-year (2020-2025) mission, which focuses on Accelerating Transformation Through Agricultural INnovation (ATTAIN) and aims to deliver BETTER, BIGGER, and SMARTER impacts and outcomes to agricultural and rural development stakeholders across Southeast Asia.