This Report was prepared by Chun K. Lai and Napoleon T. Vergara under the technical guidance of P. Durst, Senior Forestry Officer, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAO/RAP). The work was a part of the upstream activity led by D. B. Antiporta, Chief, and S. L. Kang, Policy Officer, Policy Assistance Branch (RAP) and carried out under UNDP/FAO RAS/95/01T, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in Asia and the Pacific: Issues and Challenges.
Companion volumes of this report have also been produced. The main volume, Poverty Alleviation and Food Security in Asia: Lessons and Challenges, was prepared with the assistance of A. M. Balisacan. In other agriculture sub-sectors, concerned FAO/RAP Officers provided respective technical guidance as follows: F.J. Dent, Senior Soil Management and Fertilizer Use Officer, for Land Resources by M.G. Douglas; M.K. Papademetriou, Senior Plant Production and Protection Officer, for Crop Production by R.B. Singh and Edward M. Herath; D. Hoffmann, Senior Animal Production and Health Officer, for Role of Livestock by Gavin Ramsay and Leith Andrews, and P. C. Choudhury, Senior Aquaculture Officer, for Sustainable Cotribution of Fisheries by M. Hatta, Yong-Ja Cho, Song Zhiwen, R. Gillet and K. Sivasubramaniam. Their technical contributions are greatly appreciated.