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Brain science offers halal meat industry a humane edge
SERDANG, Malaysia—How can science help ensure that meat production is both halal and humane? Can it measure the pain that animals experience during slaughter? That's exactly what a team of Malaysian researchers set out to explore in an initiative that brought brain-wave technology to the world of halal slaughter. Led by Prof. Dr. Awis Qurni Sazili, Direct…
29 January 2019
UBC-Vancouver offers Faculty Travel Grant
29 January 2019
VANCOUVER, Canada – The University of British Columbia (UBC), here, is offering a Travel Grant for a faculty member from a University Consortium (UC) member-university to visit the Faculty of Land and Food Systems (LFS) for at least four (4) weeks between 1 September and 30 November 2019. The…
VANCOUVER, Canada – The University of British Columbia (UBC), here, is offering a Travel Grant for a faculty member from a University Consortium (UC) member-university to visit the Faculty of Land and Food Systems (LFS) for at least four (4) weeks between 1 September and 30 November 2019. The…
28 January 2019
Calamansi project gears up for implementation
28 January 2019
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) held a mini-workshop for the project titled Upgrading the Calamansi Value Chain towards Improving the Calamansi…
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) held a mini-workshop for the project titled Upgrading the Calamansi Value Chain towards Improving the Calamansi…
23 January 2019
SEARCA-ASRF supports Cambodia in developing case studies on community forestry's contribution to local livelihoods
23 January 2019
SIEM REAP, Cambodia – A project being implemented under a grant from the ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry (AWG-SF) Strategic Response Fund (ASRF), Community Forestry in Cambodia – A review of community forestry contribution to local livelihoods after 25 years of development, was v…
SIEM REAP, Cambodia – A project being implemented under a grant from the ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry (AWG-SF) Strategic Response Fund (ASRF), Community Forestry in Cambodia – A review of community forestry contribution to local livelihoods after 25 years of development, was v…
23 January 2019
School-Plus-Home Gardens Project showcased at the Asian Confab on SDGs
23 January 2019
The School-Plus-Home Project (S+HGP) of SEARCA, co-implemented with the the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) and the Department of Education (DepEd)-Laguna has recently been presented at the 18th Science Council of Asia (SCA) Conference held at SCA's Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan…
The School-Plus-Home Project (S+HGP) of SEARCA, co-implemented with the the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) and the Department of Education (DepEd)-Laguna has recently been presented at the 18th Science Council of Asia (SCA) Conference held at SCA's Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan…
21 January 2019
SEARCA and THF level up leaders of higher education institutions in Southeast Asia
21 January 2019
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna, Philippines – Experts and emerging leaders of higher education institutions (HEIs) in Southeast Asia have gathered to participate in the Leadership Development Program for Higher Education Institutions in Southeast Asia (LDP-HEIs in SEA) held here at the Southeast As…
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna, Philippines – Experts and emerging leaders of higher education institutions (HEIs) in Southeast Asia have gathered to participate in the Leadership Development Program for Higher Education Institutions in Southeast Asia (LDP-HEIs in SEA) held here at the Southeast As…
17 January 2019
SEARCA conducts regular training workshops for scholars
17 January 2019
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Twenty-eight SEARCA scholars enrolled at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia, and Universiti Putra Malaysia attended the training workshops on Data Analysis and Experimental Designs and Writing Thesis and D…
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Twenty-eight SEARCA scholars enrolled at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia, and Universiti Putra Malaysia attended the training workshops on Data Analysis and Experimental Designs and Writing Thesis and D…
17 January 2019
"Water donation" photo bags first prize in Southeast Asian photo contest
17 January 2019
SEARCA, Los Baños, LAGUNA – An endless queue of women in colorful garbs and earthen jars nestled over their heads, waiting turns to fetch water from a shallow river in Myanmar for "donation", was adjudged the best photo from over a thousand submissions from 10 Southeast Asian countries…
SEARCA, Los Baños, LAGUNA – An endless queue of women in colorful garbs and earthen jars nestled over their heads, waiting turns to fetch water from a shallow river in Myanmar for "donation", was adjudged the best photo from over a thousand submissions from 10 Southeast Asian countries…
15 January 2019
SEARCA support programs aim for enhanced relevance and effectiveness
15 January 2019
LAGUNA, Philippines – The result of the external review of SEARCA support programs was presented to the Executive Committee of the Center on 17 December 2018. The review of the programs Seed Fund for Research and Training (SFRT), Travel Grants (STGP), and the Regional SEARCA Professorial Chai…
LAGUNA, Philippines – The result of the external review of SEARCA support programs was presented to the Executive Committee of the Center on 17 December 2018. The review of the programs Seed Fund for Research and Training (SFRT), Travel Grants (STGP), and the Regional SEARCA Professorial Chai…
14 January 2019
SEARCA conducts short course on cropping systems for Timorese lecturers, researchers
14 January 2019
DILI – The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) conducted a short course on cropping system models and its implications for climate impact modelling for 27 junior lecturers and researchers of Universidade Nacional Timor Lorasa'e (UNTL) on 14-…
DILI – The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) conducted a short course on cropping system models and its implications for climate impact modelling for 27 junior lecturers and researchers of Universidade Nacional Timor Lorasa'e (UNTL) on 14-…
10 January 2019
ASRF awards Grant to Indonesia
10 January 2019
The ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry (AWG-SF) Strategic Response Fund [ASRF], funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and managed by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), has awarded grant to Indonesia for the project t…
The ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry (AWG-SF) Strategic Response Fund [ASRF], funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and managed by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), has awarded grant to Indonesia for the project t…
