APIRAS Sub-Regional Networks

Welcome to APIRAS

Asia-Pacific Islands Rural Advisory Services Network (APIRAS) was organized in 2011 to serve as a platform for networking, advocacy, and capacity building for agricultural extension and rural advisory services (RAS) professionals and institutions in the Asia-Pacific Islands Region.

Together with the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS), it has been organising RAS providers in the region through its sub-regional networks and country fora; promoting capacity development; and advocating for an appropriate enabling environment that allows smallholder farmers to access market-oriented advisory services.

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Despite self-sufficiency in paddy, Sri Lanka relies on food imports due to shortfalls in other crops. In 2023, the Department of Agriculture launched a three-year project under the AFACI-RATES initiative to boost agricultural productivity through better extension services and ICT tools.

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These insights offer actionable pathways for policymakers, extension practitioners, and development partners to scale up VECs as sustainable, inclusive, and innovation-driven pillars of Indonesia’s rural transformation.

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In 2022, the Rural Development Administration(RDA) of the Republic of Korea through its Asian Food and Agriculture Cooperation Initiative (AFACI)

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Agribusiness incubation plays a key role in creating and nurturing viable agricultural.

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The creation of Competitive Research Grants (CRGs) is globally recognized as an institutional

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Farm Business School Forward (FBS Forward) FAO E-Learning Academy

FBS Forward aims to empower small-scale farmers to make informed and strategic decisions that enhance farm profitability and improve access to viable markets, with a strong focus on inclusion, gender equality, innovation, and collective action. The programme is delivered through group-based learning, facilitated by trained facilitators.

Transforming Lives Through Climate-Resilient Irrigation

Many of the world’s poor are farmers. But all too often, crops that once blossomed on the verdant fields of small, rain-fed family farms now thirst for water from drought and soaring heat.

Call for Applications: Workshop on Co-Production of Knowledge

RCSD at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, supported by IDRC / CRDI and Norwegian People's Aid, invites applications for a five-day training workshop titled: Co-Production of Knowledge: Critical Dimensions of Participatory Action Research, to be held from 4–8 May 2026 at Chiang Mai University.

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Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions(APAARI)
182 Larn Luang Road,
Khlong Mahanak Pomprab Sattrupai
Bangkok, 10100, Thailand

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Centre for Research on Innovation and Science Policy (CRISP)
H.No: 8-2-598/A/13, Opposite Vista Image, Road No.10, Banjara Hills,
Hyderabad– 500034, India

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