The ASSET knowledge hub plays a key role in achieving the overall project objective, which is to provide a broad set of accessible knowledge and concrete evidence to a wide audience. It will be an innovative contribution to the recognition and adoption of agroecology principles and activities in policies and society.

The ASSET project will take advantage of the existing online resources of ALiSEA, and consolidate and integrate them into an essential knowledge hub for agroecology issues in the Mekong Region. This hub will support the production, valorization and dissemination of knowledge on agroecology for a wide range of stakeholders and beneficiaries.

The hub will use an intuitive and user-friendly structure to present the ALiSEA repository, data and knowledge acquired in the project’s flagship sites, as well as secondary data. Linkages will be established between the hub and other strategic online platforms, such as the FAO’s Agroecology Knowledge Hub, ASEA and MALICA, the Global Land Programme, or the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture.

Novel technical tools, such as mobile solutions, crowd-sourced information generation, and spatial representation of agroecology initiatives will be piloted during the project. Successful options will be added to the hub for long-term productive use.

A stable institutional home will be sought for the hub in order to guarantee its existence beyond the project’s lifetime for the benefit of stakeholders in the region.