Community based Asian Agrifuture: how it can be achieved

Abstract

Asia is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world, however the quality control of agricultural food products should be severely and strictly managed from the view point of food security and safety due to the increase of food feeding demand to cover the drastic and rapidly increase of world human population in recent years. We humans are facing two big global issues of energy and environment. Good solution finding is still under the efforts making on building a sustainable society, however no optimal solution has yet been found. Needless to say the special attention should be paid not to jeopardize the natural environment any more for stopping the global warming. Given the world's population, which is growing rapidly by 80 million people annually, it is easy to guess that food issues could become a major issue sooner or later. It is natural for us humans to be ready to prepare and address some message immediately if we know what is coming now around us. In this paper the current status of Asian agriculture in the world is overviewed first, then the Asian agrifuture is discussed and proposed from the community based viewpoint how it should / can be promoted and achieved.