Category Archives: Other News

Regional Policy Dialogue on Digitalization for Agriculture and Digital AgriHub

ADB Institute and Digital Agri Hub co-organized a policy dialogue entitled Digitalization for Agriculture: Regional and Country Policies and Pathways. The policy dialogue brought together policy makers from ADB member economies, experts from think tanks, universities and international organizations, and digital agriculture solution providers to explore  agricultural technology development in Asia and the Pacific, discuss…

Water Security and Climate Change Conference to be held in December 2022

The Water Security and Climate Change Conference (WSCC2022) will be held in a hybrid manner in Bangkok, Thailand from 01–03 December 2022. A selected number of participants will be invited to Bangkok to present their work in person, while some sessions will be organized online for a wider audience. The conference is being organized by…

AIT & its Partners Support Thailand in Implementation of Technical Assistance on Climate-Smart Agriculture

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Thailand on 13 January 2021 announced a $2 million technical assistance grant to help promote the adoption of climate-smart agriculture in highlands of northern Thailand. The Technical Assistance, funded by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, will help local governments demonstrate to highland farmers climate-resilient practices…

Seven AIT faculty researchers are amongst world’s top 2% scientists in their respective fields

According to a paper recently published by Stanford University researchers, seven AIT faculty members are amongst the world’s top 2% scientists based on career-wide scientific impact to respective sub-disciplines. Three faculty members – Prof. Dung Phan Minh, Prof. C. Visvanathan and Prof. Shobhakar Dhakal – placed in the top 1% of the global scientific community.…