This session aims to present ADB’s new regional initiative on accelerating sustainable and resilient rice sector transformation, highlighting how climate smart technologies, digital tools, and carbon credit approaches can deliver economic incentives for farmers, promote low carbon practices such as Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), and support countries’ NDC targets. It also aims to showcase technology driven models and the institutional and private sector partnerships needed to scale sustainable, low carbon rice farming across Asia.
Keynote speech: Public role of the private sector in sustainable and row-carbon rice sector
Qingfeng Zhang, Senior Director, AFNR, ADB
Roundtable 1: Technology-driven potentials for carbon credits in rice sector
The session is designed to share the advanced technologies for operationalizing carbon credits projects in the rice sector and indicative applications based on these technologies in the future
Moderator: Tsutomu Koyama, Natural Resources and Agriculture Specialist, AFNR ADB
Panelists:
- Ando Radanielson, Environment and Climate Change Senior Scientist, International Rice Research Institute
- Shin-ichi Sobue, Senior Advisor, Satellite Applications and Operation Centers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Diego Lobos-Lillo, Senior Researcher, Archeda
- Takashi Yamano, Principal Economist, ADB
Roundtable 2: The lessons learned on sustainable and row-carbon rice farming
The session shares the status towards full implementation of sustainable and low-carbon rice farming.
Moderator: Beau Damen, Natural Resources Officer - Climate Change and Climate Finance, FAO
Panelists:
- Eduardo Jimmy P. Quilang, OIC-Deputy Executive Director for Research, DA-PhilRice
- Daiki Tajima, Project Coordinator in Southeast Asia, Faeger Co., Ltd.
- Soumita Bhattacharya, Manager, Partnerships for Scale, Sustainable Rice Platform
- Saravanan Govindan, Commercial Unit Head for Crop Protection, Syngenta Philippines
- Raniela R. Rabe, Project Director, Ostrom Climate Solutions
