SEARCA in the News

MALANG POST – Universitas Brawijaya (UB) terus mendorong peningkatan pendanaan riset melalui kolaborasi internasional. UB mencatat lonjakan signifikan dalam pendapatan riset per dosen, berkat kontribusi dari hibah internasional dan kemitraan dengan mitra global. Salah satu pencapaian penting adalah keberhasilan Pusat Studi Inovasi Kesehatan dan Pembangunan UB, yang dipimpin oleh Dr. Sujarwoto dari Fakultas Ilmu Administrasi. Kali ini memperoleh pendanaan dari National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Inggris. Proyek ini berfokus pada digitalisasi layanan kesehatan dan kebijakan publik berbasis bukti. Selain itu, UB juga berhasil mengamankan pendanaan hampir 1 juta USD melalui kemitraan dengan Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study… Read more

MALANGRAYA.CO - Universitas Brawijaya (UB) tunjukkan lompatan signifikan dalam penguatan reputasi sebagai universitas riset kelas dunia. Gandeng berbagai lembaga internasional, UB berhasil catat peningkatan tajam dalam pendanaan riset per dosen. Tak hanya soal dana, tren ini cerminkan transformasi strategis UB menuju kampus berbasis inovasi dan kolaborasi lintas negara. Salah satu tonggak penting dalam perjalanan ini adalah keberhasilan Pusat Studi Inovasi Kesehatan dan Pembangunan UB, yang dipimpin Dr. Sujarwoto dari Fakultas Ilmu Administrasi, memperoleh pendanaan dari National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Inggris. Proyek mereka menyoroti digitalisasi layanan kesehatan dan pentingnya kebijakan publik berbasis bukti. "Ini bukan hanya keberhasilan individual, tetapi… Read more

A RENOWNED agricultural economist called for a stronger science-policy-society interface to transform food systems amid escalating global challenges. Shenggen Fan has been emphasizing the urgency of holistic approaches to food systems transformation to address hunger, malnutrition, resource decline, climate change, and widening inequality. He discussed these issues during the recently held Agriculture and Development Seminar Series (ADSS) hosted by the Philippine government-hosted Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) at the University of the Philippines Los Baños campus in Laguna. The SEARCA ADSS is a regular forum for exchanging ideas on agricultural and rural development… Read more

The Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Enhancement (SAFE) Acceleration Program is a program to support and scale innovative business models that tackle Southeast Asia's most urgent challenges in sustainable agriculture and food security. Southeast Asia faces mounting food security challenges, with 60% of its population reliant on agriculture for livelihoods, yet climate change, with increasing droughts and floods impacting crop yields. The region loses an estimated 10–30% of crops annually to pests, extreme weather, and poor infrastructure, deepening rural poverty and malnutrition. Limited access to technology and financing, and aging farming populations need to be addressed to ensure the long-term… Read more

LOW-CARBON rice farming practices and technologies as well as carbon credit opportunities in agriculture were introduced to more than 100 stakeholders from across the rice value chain in a workshop led by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) on April 23. Arnan Araza of Leads Agri Digital and Climate-Smart Agriculture gave an overview of climate change and its impact on the Philippine rice sector. He detailed different strategies to reduce greenhouse gas and carbon emissions from rice farming through climate-smart agriculture, including alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation, and efficient water and fertilizer… Read more

IN partnership with the Central Luzon State University (CLSU), the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) has rolled out a series of introductory training sessions on agri-robotics for young learners. The activity was part of the project titled "Agri-robotics Education for Young Learners" jointly implemented by SEARCA through its Emerging for Growth Department and CLSU's Precision and Digital Agriculture Center (PreDiCt). For the months of February, March and April this year, the training sessions engaged selected students from Grades 5 and 6, and junior and senior high school levels. Participants came from the School… Read more

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna — Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) and the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) today, May 6, at the SEARCA headquarters to strengthen collaboration in education, training, and research. MMSU President Dr. Virgilio Julius P. Manzano, Jr. and SEARCA Director Dr. Mercedita Sombilla led the signing of the agreement, which will be valid for five years and may be renewed. The ceremony was witnessed by Assoc. Prof. Joselito Florendo, SEARCA Deputy Director for Administration; Assoc. Prof. Peter James Icalia-Gann, Chief of MMSU's Center for Cellular… Read more

Known as the “Tuna Capital of the Philippines," General Santos City has earned itself a new moniker as an emerging farm tourism hub in Mindanao. This, after its successful hosting of the recent 8th Philippine International Farm Tourism Conference, the country's largest gathering of practitioners and authorities on farm tourism. Organized by the International School of Sustainable Tourism (ISST) with the support of the City Government of General Santos, the three-day conference provided avenues for collaboration among farm owners, farmers, and participants and emphasized the positive socio-economic impact of farm tourism on the countryside. Farm tourism “At the heart of… Read more

THE "Endline Study on Nutrition and Socio-economic Components and the Monitoring and Evaluation of School Gardens" will build upon the insights gained from the Gulayan sa Paaralan Program (GPP), the School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP), and the School-Plus-Home Gardens Project. The study was conducted by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) in the nine pilot schools of the School-plus-Home Gardens cum Biodiversity Enhancement Enterprise (SHGBEE) Project in Busuanga Island in Palawan province. SEARCA said that the study also evaluates schoolchildren's nutritional conditions and dietary habits by comparing their nutritional status and dietary patterns before… Read more

SOUTHEAST Asian educators discussed embedding climate change adaptation and mitigation into the basic education curricula at the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Council (SEAMEC) Flagship Program 3 held on March 25. The event, hosted by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), aimed to produce learning resource packages across the region. Maria Cristeta Cuaresma, SEARCA's senior program head of the education and collective learning department, showed the online courses that the center developed and which are offered by the University of the Philippines Open University. Cuaresma introduced the School-plus-Home Gardens Program, which has been… Read more