Agriculture and Food Security
In the Spotlight
Smallholder spice farmers in India receive training, advice, and financial support through a private sector initiative that promotes sustainable farming. Learn more from Q&A with Akay Flavours & Aromatics.
In the Sanjiang Plain, People's Republic of China, ADB has helped to restore thousands of hectares of wetlands while protecting and improving the livelihoods of farmers.
The devastation left behind by Cyclone Pam in the island nation of Vanuatu demonstrates the need for countries in Asia and the Pacific to plan for the aftermath of extreme weather events.
Three irrigation systems developed in Viet Nam's Red River Delta with assistance from ADB and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have helped improve the livelihood of farming communities.
ADB invests around $2 billion a year to curb food insecurity in Asia and the Pacific, where two-thirds of the world’s hungry live.
A sustainable livelihood project in Pakistan is boosting poor farmers’ income and protecting their land from erosion.
Two-thirds of the world’s one billion hungry reside in Asia and the Pacific. Rising food prices are bringing the specter of food shortages and undernutrition to millions more of the region’s poor.
Supplying growing populations with adequate and affordable food is a major challenge, requiring massive investments in food distribution, storage, and marketing facilities.
$1.05billiontotal assistance to agriculture and natural resources sector in 2013
112millionpeople in the region could have escaped poverty between 2001-2013 had food prices not increased
14%of the population in Asia and the Pacfic is undernourished (compared with 12.5% globally)