school garden; households; communities; agrobiodiversity; children; school gardening; school plus home garden; food and nutrition education; education curriculum; school feeding; Indonesia; Nepal; Sri Lanka; Philippines
A total of 130 participants from partner organizations, school administrators, and teachers from the Department of Education (DepEd), Philippines and ministries of education across Southeast Asia (SEA), and Local Government Units (LGU) joined in the International Conference on School Gardens held on 16-17 April 2018 at the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) Headquarters in Los Baños, Laguna.
With the theme “Leveraging the Multi-functionality of School Gardens,” the international conference was organized by SEARCA in partnership with the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), the DepEd-Division of Laguna, Philippines, and the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR). It aimed to serve as a venue for sharing the different models and approaches of school gardens within and outside the SEA region.
