Center for Social Development Studies - CSDS

If you're thinking of joining POLLEN2026, please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on the Political Ecology of Disasters and Development. The panel is co-organized with Takeshi Ito and colleagues. The submission deadline is Dec 5th,

Five new policy briefs from the Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program:

🌊 Protecting the Customary Rights and Way of Life in Thailand’s Small-scale Fishery Communities

🌱 From Trust to Recognition: Strengthening a Participatory and Community-Grounded Seed System in Thailand

🌿 Walking Alongside Communities: Supporting Community-Led Adaptation Resilience Beyond Climate Change in Northern Thailand’s Highlands

🏞️ Connecting Thailand’s Community-based Tourism to Chinese Travellers: Local Voices, Emerging Trends, and Collaboration

🚗 Can Chinese EV Investment Contribute to Thailand’s Green Transformation?

📌 Visit here to explore the project and download the policy briefs:
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Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program — Center for Social Development Studies Regional sustainability through research, collaboration and dialogue

REMINDER: Please join us "Towards Regional Solidarity in a Changing Food Landscape"
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Singapore’s role in understanding food systems and their transformation is significant. It is part of a network of regional hubs where agribusinesses, media organisations, and investment firms with a key focus on North America and Europe are headquartered in Asia. This presentation aims to spark a discussion on the Southeast Asian food systems Singapore is intertwined with, for people involved in planning, organising, and researching food systems that nourish ecological and social well-being. This presentation places urban gardens research within food systems, learning assemblages, and sustainability transitions literature, and asks what connections we might draw between locally-rooted practices, and regional connections.

𝐇𝐮𝐢𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐠 develops knowledge exchange and action research methodologies with Living Soil (Singapore) and at the Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich. Her practice includes research, writing and multimodal interventions oriented towards agroecological regional food systems. Huiying’s doctoral research utilizes participatory approaches and film to understand agroecology’s materiality in Thailand.

Discussant: 𝐉𝐞𝐟𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐮, National University of Singapore

Organised in collaboration with: 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐤𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲.