The Asian Food and Agriculture Cooperation Initiative (AFACI) has awarded the communications head of the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) as the 2018 Most Outstanding Principal Investigator (PI) of the ATIN project in the Philippines.
Photo shows the award given to Bureau of Agricultural Applied Communications Division head Julia Lapitan by the Agricultural Technology Information Network (ATIN) in Asia for being named the 2018 Most Outstanding Principal Investigator (PI) of the ATIN project in the Philippines. Lapitan bested PIs from 13 other countries. BAR PHOTO
This is the second time that BAR Applied Communications head Julia Lapitan was given the prestigious award, besting representatives from 13 member-countries that comprise the Asian Food and Agriculture Cooperation Initiative (AFACI). ATIN is an undertaking of AFACI.
Lapitan was also named by the AFACI Secretariat as the Most Outstanding ATIN PI in 2017 awarded during an official ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand.
Kim Changsoo, ATIN PI of South Korea, presented the plaque of appreciation to Lapitan, the national contact person of AFACI to the Philippines.
“Aside from building closer ties within the region, AFACI has been actively involved in the international society’s efforts to address poverty and hunger in Asia by identifying appropriate and practical strategies in attaining sustainable agriculture,” BAR said in its website for the ATIN Project.
AFACI was officially inaugurated in November 2009 to foster cooperation among Asian countries to address issues related to sustainable food production and industrialization of the agriculture sector in Asia, among others.
