动态一：东盟和东亚经济研究所（ERIA）最新动态
1. The Parliamentary League for ERIA held the meeting with the new Secretary General of ASEAN
Tokyo, Japan: On 11 December 2017, the ERIA's Parliamentary League met with the new Secretary General of ASEAN, Dato Paduka Lim Jock Hoi.
H.E. Mr. Toshihiro Nikai, Chairman of the Parliamentary eague for ERIA, opened the meeting. Prof Hidetoshi Nishimura, President of ERIA, reported ERIA's activity in 2017.
2. ERIA Pays Courtesy Call to Thailand's New Energy Minister
A small delegation from the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) paid a courtesy call to the new Energy Minister of Thailand, H.E. Dr Siri Jirapongphan, on the afternoon of 20 December 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand.
3. ERIA Holds Consultative Workshop on Lao PDR 2017 National Energy Statistics
The Ministry of Energy and Mines of Lao PDR (MME) and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) held a Consultative Workshop on the Preliminary Results of National Energy Statistics of Lao PDR 2017 on 30 November 2017.
4. East Asia: Seizing the Momentum to Reform
The year 2017 was a good one for most East Asian countries. As almost all countries recorded higher year-to-date (ytd, Q1-Q3 2017) gross domestic product (GDP) growth compared to the average achieved in the past three years. Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan recorded the largest pickup compared to average growth achieved in the past three years. The bedrock of this trend, arguably, is the improving global economic conditions, an important factor for economies deeply involved in global trade such as those of the East Asian region.
Moving forwards, continued acceleration is expected in 2018. The IMF and the World Bank forecast that global economic growth will be stronger in 2018 than in 2017, supported by pickups in real sector activities, including investment, trade, and industrial production. Despite the favourable outlook, significant downside risks remain such as the management of financial risk in China and the tightening of global financial condition
The current period of economic upturn is an opportunity to accelerate reforms. Rather than being complacent, the region's policymakers should take advantage of the recent growth momentum generated by the economic upturn to accelerate domestic reforms and strengthen regional cooperation, so economic growth becomes more sustainable and the region's economies more resilient to external shocks.
动态二：国际货币基金组织最新出版物
Shifting Commodity Markets in a Globalized World
"Since 2014, many commodity exporters have faced economic hardships. This indispensable new volume draws on the latest research, and explains the structural forces that are now driving commodity markets--in both North America and around the world--and what we can expect in the years ahead."
Michael L. Ross, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
"Commodity markets are increasingly complex and poorly understood. Energy markets, in particular, are going through a period of rapid transformation. This book is a valuable resource for understanding how policy, technology, demographic and geographic forces are reshaping global commodity markets."
Jason Bordoff, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
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动态三：FAO 联合国粮食及农业组织最新动态
1. FAO’s role in school food and nutrition
FAO recognizes that schools are an ideal setting to support the nutrition and development of children and youth.
FAO works with governments to leverage schools’ potential through school food and nutrition programmes, supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of food security, nutrition, education and health for everyone. This work focuses on four main areas:
Food and nutrition education
FAO promotes a “whole school” approach to nutrition education, which involves all actors that influence children´s diets, including their families, teachers, school staff, smallholder farmers, foodservice staff, food vendors and others.
Educational lessons and practical activities that complement each other are integral parts of effective school-based nutrition education. Classroom lessons are paired with hands-on opportunities for students to experience, practice and be actively involved in learning about food, diets and health.
This comprehensive approach helps create positive attitudes and skills and helps pave the way for carrying healthy habits beyond school and into adulthood.
School-based food and nutrition education programmes encourage and empower children and their communities to take ownership of their own diets and food choices and become agents of change in local food systems.
School gardens are also commonly used as a learning platform. FAO encourages and supports countries to promote school gardens with educational goals to help students, school staff and families make the connection between growing food and good diets, develop life skills and increase environmental awareness.
Healthy food environments and meals
FAO supports governments in developing nutrition standards for school meals and policies for a healthier school food environment. The food environment shapes how foods are made accessible, affordable, desirable and convenient for children and communities. Healthy school food environments enable and encourage school communities (children, families, school staff, etc.) to make food choices that lead to better diets and well-being.
Home-grown school feeding programmes
FAO supports governments in developing Home-grown school feeding (HGSF) programmes, which purchase safe, diverse and nutritious food for school meals from local smallholder farmers.This approach aims at delivering healthy meals to children, while at the same time stimulating local agriculture and economies.
HGSF programmes augment the positive impact of regular school feeding programmes and promote multiples benefits. This approach can improve the access and availability of nutritious food for both schoolchildren and local communities; value local dietary habits and ingredients; support the adoption agro-ecological and/or climate-sensitive agriculture practices; create business opportunities for smallholder farmers and other vulnerable producers (including women, youth, and members of traditional communities).
HGSF programmes provide an opportunity to benefit local farmers, producers and processors by generating a stable, structured and predictable demand for their products, building the market and benefiting the wider local economy.
They enable the development of nutrition-sensitive and inclusive value chains that play an important role in shaping and strengthening sustainable local and national food systems.
Policy, legal and institutional environment
To be effective, school food and nutrition programmes need to be supported by national policies, regulations and institutions. At the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), governments committed to develop policies, programmes and initiatives to ensure healthy diets throughout life, including school food and nutrition programmes. To achieve these objectives, FAO supports countries in adopting the right policies and legal and institutional frameworks to implement comprehensive school food and nutrition programmes, with human-rights based approaches that bring together the diverse sectors, such as agriculture, health, education and social protection that are related to school feeding.
2. FAO launches mobile application to support fight against Fall Armyworm in Africa
The application is vital for early detection of Fall Armyworm and guiding best response
FAO has launched a mobile application to enable farmers, agricultural workers and other partners at the frontline of the fight against Fall Armyworm in Africa to identify, report the level of infestation, and map the spread of this destructive insect, as well as to describe its natural enemies and the measures that are most effective in managing it.
The Fall Armyworm Monitoring and Early Warning System (FAMEWS) mobile app provides valuable insights on how the insect changes over time and space to improve knowledge of its behaviour in Africa - in a new context - and guide best response.
Fall Armyworm has already infected millions of hectares of maize in Africa - a staple crop across the continent - threatening the food security of more than 300 million people, mainly small-holder farmers who are already struggling to make ends meet and have enough food for their families. By early 2018, only 10 (mostly in the north of the continent) out of the 54 African states and territories have not reported infestations by the fast-spreading, crop-munching pest
“The app will help us build our collective knowledge of Fall Armyworm in Africa, and connect all the dots – from how and where it spreads to what makes it weaker and less damaging,” said Keith Cressman, FAO Senior Agricultural Officer who led the development of the app together with the UN agency’s partners.
“The app is useful on two fronts: for farmers and agricultural workers in the direct management of their crops to prevent further infestations and reduce damage; and for all actors involved in managing Fall Armyworm in Africa, by providing vital analysis on risks, spread and management,” said Cressman.
Helping farmers take appropriate action
Once farmers and workers check their crops for infestations and upload the required data, the app calculates infestation levels so that farmers can take immediate actions to manage the situation.
The data is validated by national Fall Armyworm focal points and transferred to a global web-based platform. It is then analyzed to give a real-time situation overview with maps of Fall Armyworm infestations and the measures that were most effective in reducing its impact.
Initially implemented in Madagascar and Zambia, the app is now being rolled out across all countries in Sub-Saharan Africa affected by the invasive pest through the FAO-supported Farmer Field Schools (FFSs) as well as other community-based forums leading the fight against Fall Armyworm.
Updates to the app in the coming months will provide additional functionality such as an offline advisory system that provides immediate guidance to the user, based on the collected data, and a diagnostic tool that uses the camera of the mobile phone to determine Fall Armyworm damage levels to maize.
The app is an integral part of FAO’s sustainable management programme for Fall Armyworm in Africa. It supports all stages of Fall Armyworm management from early warning and monitoring to response and risk assessment.
FAO and the Fall Armyworm
FAO has proposed a five-year programme of action to help smallholder farmers, their organizations, their public institutions, national governments and development partners quickly respond to the challenges of FAW infestation across Africa.
FAO is taking an active role in coordinating partners’ activities, plans and approaches to provide sustainable solutions to the FAW challenge.
Supporting Farmers
The direct actions that can be taken to manage FAW are largely up to farmers in their fields. Thus FAO’s main focus is aimed at helping farmers do their job better. Farmers need to first understand what FAW is – how to identify it and understand its biology and ecology. They need to be able to determine the risk level in the context of their production systems and take appropriate actions, both preventive and responsive, based on their assessments.
FAO and its partners are helping:
• to determine and disseminate best practices to smallholder farmers
• to conduct risk analyses
• to facilitate and support the refinement and application of near-term solutions
• to shape the policy and technical environment that farmers face.
Lessons from the Americas
Some advice and recommendations are directly available from the Americas where both maize and FAW are native. Maize farmers in the Americas have been managing FAW for centuries. However, the ecological and economic contexts are quite different between the typical maize farmers of the Americas and those of Africa. A sustainable integrated FAW management programme appropriate for the African context needs to be rapidly communicated and put into practice by tens of millions of smallholder maize farmers across the African continent. It is also urgent that governments fully appreciate the threat that FAW poses and adopt policies and programmes that help promote sustainable responses to this threat.
Actions on the ground
FAO will train National Plant Protection Organizations, extension services, and farmers via Farmer Field Schools to quickly get the appropriate action in the Field, while simultaneously filling knowledge gaps, innovating for future solutions, developing local capacities, promoting local empowerment and rural youth employment and coordinating among partners to maximize results.
FAO Technical Working Groups, along with many partners, are developing:
• Recommendations on the use of synthetic pesticides
• Recommendations on biological control, especially bio-pesticides
• A monitoring and early warning programme
• Farmer Field Schools curricula and communications.
动态四：FAO Major releases from 2017
From the annual hunger report, completely re-geared to provide a broader understanding of food security and nutrition, to the first in a new series on the future of food and agriculture, FAO produced over 700 publications in 2017. These can be freely downloaded from the FAO Document Repository or purchased in print through our official distributors. FAO e-books are also available on most major platforms. Here are some major releases you may have missed, and our Publications catalogue 2017 contains many more:
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in World 2017: Building resilience for peace and food security
A renewed format and title for this report, produced in partnership with WFP, IFAD, WHO and UNICEF, reflecting the Sustainable Development Goal agenda’s vision for ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2017: Leveraging food systems for inclusive rural transformation
First released in 1947, this 2017 edition takes a fresh look at rural and urban areas not as separate domains but as a spectrum ranging from the farm level to megacities.
The future of food and agriculture: Trends and challenges
The first in a new series that examines the challenges agriculture and food systems are facing now and into the 21st century.
Food Outlook – June and November
This biannual publication focuses on developments affecting global food and feed markets, with comprehensive assessments and forecasts on a commodity-by-commodity basis.
OECD-FAO Agricultural outlook
This assessment of medium-term prospects draws on input from governments and specialist commodity organizations. The 2017 edition includes a focus on Southeast Asia.
Climate Smart Agriculture: Building resilience to climate change
A fully Open Access title, co-published with international scientific publisher Springer, on integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation into agricultural growth strategies.
Yearbook of forest products 2015 and Yearbook of fisheries and aquaculture statistics 2015
The latest figures on forestry and fisheries.
Trade and food standards
A look at how FAO and the World Trade Organization facilitate trade on the basis of internationally agreed food standards.
Towards Zero Hunger
FAO’s work told in a compelling selection of archival photographs covering more than 7 decades.
The Publication catalogue 2018 will be available in March.
动态五： ADB亚洲开发银行最新动态
1. ADB is supporting the People's Republic of China as it transitions to a new growth model that emphasizes quality and sustainability, supported by innovation.
Since 1986, ADB has approved $32.9 billion in sovereign loans and $3.4 billion for private sector operations for the PRC. ADB will support the government’s reform agenda by fostering inclusive economic growth, helping the People's Republic of China (PRC) mainstream environmentally sustainable development, and promoting regional and South–South cooperation.
The country partnership strategy (CPS) for the PRC 2016-2020 focuses on the government’s reform agenda and strategic priorities, supporting climate change and the environment, regional cooperation and integration, inclusive economic growth, knowledge cooperation, and institutional and governance reform. During this CPS period, the ADB-PRC operations will adopt a more programmatic approach to address key developmental issues.
Updated yearly, this ADB Fact Sheet provides social and economic indicators on the People’s Republic of China as well as concise information on ADB's operations in the country and contact information.
2. ADB, China Water Affairs Sign Deal to Improve Urban Water Management in PRC
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today signed a loan equivalent of up to $200 million to help China Water Affairs Group Limited (CWA) improve wastewater management and increase people’s access to clean and reliable water supply in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
The agreement was signed by Christopher Thieme, Deputy Director General of ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department, and Duan Chuan Liang, CWA’s Chairman, at a ceremony in Beijing.
ADB’s assistance is comprised of two loans of up to $100 million each in US dollars and yuan. The financing, to be disbursed on a project-by-project basis, will support the construction and operation of a series of public-private partnership (PPP) initiatives covering a combination of water treatment and distribution, wastewater treatment, and sewage and drainage pipelines in second and third-tier cities in the PRC. The PPP arrangements will help increase private sector participation in the urban water sector.
“Ensuring accessible, safe, and reliable water supplies for the PRC’s urban areas is an urgent development priority,” said Mr. Thieme. “This financing supports CWA in pioneering new approaches to urban water management where multiple services are integrated to increase water efficiency.”
This transaction builds on the success of ADB’s earlier partnerships with CWA, which focused on supplying water to cities and surrounding rural communities. In this new financing, the emphasis is on supporting CWA’s innovations to link the entire water value chain, including wastewater pipelines and treatment.
Once completed, CWA’s projects are anticipated to supply over 10 million cubic meters per day of tap water and treat over 1.8 million cubic meters of wastewater daily. Over 5,000 kilometers of CWA-managed sewage and drainage pipeline networks will also be constructed.
CWA, established in 2003 as one of the first private companies to own and operate water distribution networks in the PRC, has concession operations in more than 50 cities, across 16 provinces and provincial-level municipalities, in the country. CWA’s main business lines include water supply, wastewater management, and water construction services.
ADB, based in Manila, is dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific through inclusive economic growth, environmentally sustainable growth, and regional integration. Established in 1966, it is owned by 67 members—48 from the region.
动态六： UNRISD 联合国社会发展研究所(UNRISD) 最新动态
Special Policy Dialogue: Towards a Post-Neoliberal World Order: Rebuilding Human Rights-Based Multilateralism
On 8 December, over 500 people made their way to the Palais des Nations, Geneva, to hear Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK Labour Party, speaking at this UNRISD event with Arancha Gonzalez (Executive Director of ITC) and Nikhil Seth (Executive Director of UNITAR) on the need for a new era of multilateralism based on solidarity and human rights.
UNRISD Flagship Report launched in South Africa
The UNRISD Flagship Report, Policy Innovations for Transformative Change , was launched on the African continent at the Social Policy in Africa Conference, held in the City of Tshwane, South Africa on 20-22 November 2017. UNRISD also launched of its latest edited volume Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies , and shared the international perspective on social policy for development with participants at this fascinating African conference.
“For challenging established premises”: Bina Agarwal Wins Prestigious Prize
Professor Bina Agarwal, scholar and former UNRISD Board Member, was awarded the prestigious Balzan prize for her ground-breaking work on women and agriculture within gender studies. The prize, which is one of the world’s top social science prizes, was presented to her in Bern, Switzerland in November.
UNRISD Reaches out to Colombian Students Searching for Sustainable Development and Lasting Peace
On 29 November, UNRISD introduced a group of about 20 Colombian students to our research and work for impact. The students, from three universities, were in Geneva as part of a study tour of Geneva-based UN bodies and specialized agencies working in areas related to trade and development, and also to help Colombian universities build stronger relations with the United Nations.
