The Philippine government-hosted Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) will host a planning meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry (AWG-SF) Strategic Response Fund (ASRF) here on June 13 to coincide with the 7th AWG-SF Conference.
SEARCA will present the proposed "ASEAN Multi-sectoral Framework for Climate Change: Agriculture and Forestry Contributing to Food and Nutrition Security and SDGs" at the 7th AWG-SF Conference. The presentation to be delivered by Dr. Juan Pulhin is expected to elicit inputs into the framework from the conference participants.
Results of recent studies on biofuel as an approach to forest landscape restoration, including a SEARCA study, will be presented by U-Prime Rodriguez of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB).