According to Mr. Ashvin Dayal, Managing Director (Asia), Rockefeller
Foundation, the Asia office is investing significantly in two major
initiatives - building climate resilience cities and transforming
health systems. As the Rockefeller Foundation aligns its work to new
global initiatives, they would like to ensure that their efforts will
also build and strengthen the development of centers of Excellence for
research in Asia.
The Rockefeller Asia office has just initiated a multi-country
secondary research project on transitions in Asian agriculture with an
emphasis on the effects of demographic trends and ageing, land holding
patterns, climate change and changing production technology on small
farms in Asia. This project is being coordinated by Prof. Gopal Thapa
of the RRDP field of study in SERD.
The development was reported in
The Straits Times and
The Malaysian Insider.