LEADING up to the landmark United Nations Food Systems Summit in September this year, the Southeast Asian Regional Center on Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Searca) and Singapore-based CropLife Asia (CLA) convened a virtual dialogue on 'Transforming Pathways: Working with Farmers in the Agri-food Systems.'

According to Searca and CLA, to transform food systems, farmers need access to appropriate, affordable, profit-enhancing technologies and sustainable crop systems that do not result in ecological degradation or social conditions.