Grow Asia

Grow Asia is a partnership established by the World Economic Forum and the ASEAN Secretariat to support smallholder farmers in South East Asia. The initiative aims to reach 10 million farmers by 2020, targeting a 20% increase in productivity, profitability, and environmental sustainability. The partnership operates through five Country Partnerships in Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Vietnam, focusing on inclusive value chains, innovative finance, and digital platforms. It is governed by a Steering Committee and supported by a Business Council and a Civil Society Council, with funding from the governments of Australia and Canada.

• Grow Asia aims to reach 10 million smallholder farmers by 2020 to help them increase their productivity, profitability, and environmental sustainability by 20%.
• The partnership currently collaborates with 261 partners across five Country Partnerships and has reached nearly 500,000 smallholder farmers.
• Grow Asia is implementing specific regional initiatives to support farmers, including a Regional Finance Working Group to test financial solutions for long-term financing of plantation crops and the development of an open-source, pre-competitive mobile-based digital platform for market and agronomy information.
• The initiative operates through five specific Country Partnerships: the Cambodia Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture (CPSA), the Partnership for Indonesia’s Sustainable Agriculture (PISAgro), the Myanmar Agriculture Network (MAN), the Philippines Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture (PPSA), and the Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture in Vietnam (PSAV).
• The Myanmar Agriculture Network (MAN) specifically targets increasing the value of agricultural output in Myanmar to $30 billion by 2030.

APA

World Economic Forum (2016). Grow Asia. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/IP/2015/NVA/WEF_NVA_Grow_Asia_Overview.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Grow Asia. 2016. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/IP/2015/NVA/WEF_NVA_Grow_Asia_Overview.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2016grow, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Grow Asia}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2016}, month = may, url = {http://www3.weforum.org/docs/IP/2015/NVA/WEF_NVA_Grow_Asia_Overview.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }