The conference focused on improving agricultural sustainability and alleviating poverty in East and Southeast Asia. The conference brought together more than 50 agricultural scientists and policymakers from the United States, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and from international agricultural research centers and the Asian Development Bank. Participants included He Kang, former Minister of Agriculture in China and winner of the 1993 World Food Prize. Lack of secure property rights tends to encourage farmers to overuse, overextract, and fail to invest in efficient use and conservation of resources. There was general agreement on ways to address some of these issues.
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