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The survey was crafted by the Global Justice Program and shared with relevant Asia-Pacific organizations. It was distributed as a Microsoft Form in seven languages: English, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Thai. The English-language version of the survey is reproduced below.
The Global Justice Program at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, United States, invites your organization to participate in a survey on the activities and perspectives of climate, agri-food, and environmental organizations in the Asia-Pacific region.
This survey is a first step in establishing a relationship with your organization and learning more about the missions, approaches, and needs of Asia-Pacific organizations that are working on climate, agri-food, and environmental issues across the region. We aim to have as many organizations as possible from every country in the Asia-Pacific region participate in our survey. The survey will run from mid-August to mid-September 2025, and the information and data collected will allow us to identify shared visions, objectives, needs, and areas of meaningful collaboration.
We intend to use the information gathered from the survey to facilitate collective dialogue, collaboration, solidarity, and thought leadership amongst our Institute and climate, agri-food, and environmental organizations across the Asia-Pacific region. We will share the findings from the survey with your organization. We intend to release the findings through the Othering & Belonging Institute in a White Paper publication once the survey is complete and the data has been analyzed.
Part I: Contact Information and Overview of your Organization
- First and Last Name
... - Preferred language(s) for communication
... - Name of organization
... - Year organization established
... - Your role within the organization
... - Please list the country/countries where your organization operates
... - Please list funding sources (e.g., government, philanthropy, international agencies, individual donors, etc.):
... - Please include a website address or social media links for your organization
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Part II: Identified Issue Areas, Solutions, and Frameworks of your Organization
- What are the primary communities your organization serves? (Please select your top three choices):
- Displaced persons
- Indigenous, caste, or ethnicity-based groups
- Elderly
- Farmers
- Fisherpeople
- General population
- Persons with disabilities
- Poor and low-income populations
- Rural populations
- Unemployed people/informal workers
- Urban populations
- Women
- Workers
- Youth
- What are the primary climatic problems your organization is trying to address? (Please select your top three choices):
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Desertification
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Drought
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Extreme temperature
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Floods
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Monsoons
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Pollution
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Rising sea levels and coastal erosion
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Soil erosion
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Typhoons/Cyclones
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Water shortages
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Wildfires
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- What are the primary socio-environmental problems your organization is trying to address? (Please select your top three choices):
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Agricultural pests
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Bureaucratic and regulatory issues
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Debt and finance
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Deforestation
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Disease
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Environmental/resource-related gender-based violence
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Environmental/resource-related caste/ethnicity-based violence
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Food insecurity
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Foreign ownership (land)
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Foreign ownership (infrastructure)
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Governance and decision-making processes
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Limited infrastructure
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Non-renewable energy
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Pollution
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Unequal energy access
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Land tenure
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Poverty
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Resource extraction
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Soil fertility and land exhaustion
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Waste management
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Water privatization and rights
Part III: Identified Solutions and Frameworks of your Organization
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- What does your organization believe are the short-term solutions to the issues your organization is trying to address? (Please select your top three choices):
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Advance food sovereignty
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Advance farmers’ land rights
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Advance women’s rights
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Advance Indigenous peoples’ rights
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Advance community-controlled renewable energy systems
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Cancel or mitigate external national debt
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Increase access to low-carbon, livelihood-enhancing technologies (agricultural equipment, clean cook stoves, etc.)
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Increase or improve environmental regulations (emissions and fuel quality standards, protected areas, etc.)
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Improve physical infrastructure (dams, reservoirs, seawalls, etc.)
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Support fisherpeople’s rights and access to safe aquatic ecosystems
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Waste reduction and management
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- What does your organization believe are the long-term solutions to the issues your organization is trying to address? (Please select your top three choices):
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Collectivization of farming (agricultural cooperatives, state farms, etc.)
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Develop shared ownership models, closed-loop supply chains, and the redesign of economic systems to prioritize ecological and social well-being
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Eliminate poverty
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End predatory extractivist models of development
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Ensure food sovereignty
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Incorporate climate and socio-environmental education into primary and secondary education
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Incorporate traditional ecological knowledge into policy and practice
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Improve public health infrastructures
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Improve public transportation infrastructures
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Improve aquatic ecosystems, fisherpeople’s rights, and sustainable fishing practices
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Reduce GHG emissions in the top-emitting countries
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Reduce GHG emissions in your country
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Scale up sustainable agriculture (agroecological methods, reduced petrochemical fertilizer and pesticide use, soil restoration techniques, etc.)
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Strengthen citizens' participation in the political process
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Strengthen regulations for multinational corporation/s
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Transition away from a fossil fuel-based economy
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What work is your organization actively doing to advance toward these short and long-term solutions? (Please select your top three choices):
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Consulting with civil society
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Consulting with multinational corporation/s
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Consulting with government
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Consulting with impacted communities
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Green jobs training
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Leadership development
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Legal litigation
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Organizing campaigns and advocacy with communities
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Providing educational curricula on socio-environmental systems
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Raising public awareness
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Research, analysis, and policy advocacy
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Securing and distributing funding to individuals, families, or communities
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Securing and distributing technology
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Is your organization using particular frameworks or concepts to guide its work? (Please select your top three choices):
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Agrarian reform
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Anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, and/or anti-capitalism
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Conservation
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Circular economy and/or regenerative economy
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Ecology
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Feminism and/or ecofeminism
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Environmentalism
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Equity
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Food sovereignty
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Human rights
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Just Transition
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Labor rights
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Self-reliance
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Social Justice
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Sovereignty
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Traditional knowledge
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Women's rights
Part IV: Partner Organizations, Types of Support Your Organization Needs, and Engagement
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- At what scale does your organization conduct its work? (Please select all that apply):
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At the local level
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At the national level
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Across multiple neighboring countries
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Across the entire Asia-Pacific region
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At the global level
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Does your organization work with other environmental, agri-food, and climate organizations in the Asia-Pacific region?
- Yes
- No
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Please list the Asia-Pacific environmental, agri-food, and climate organizations your organization works with, where they conduct their work (if applicable), and a contact person with their contact information (if available):
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- Does your organization work with environmental, agri-food, and climate organizations outside of the Asia-Pacific region?
- Yes
- No
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Please list the non-Asia-Pacific environmental, agri-food, and climate organizations your organization works with, and where they conduct their work (if applicable):
... - What kinds of material support does your organization need to remedy the challenges it seeks to address? (Please select your top three choices):
- Information technology infrastructure (hardware, software, networks, etc.)
- Staff training
- Funding
- Research
- Training (IT, Research and Development, funding procurement, etc.)
- What kinds of institutional support does your organization need to remedy the challenges it seeks to address? (Please select your top three choices):
- Connections to international organizations and networks
- Connections to regional organizations and networks
- Connections to international funders
- Legal advice
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Overall, how effectively do Global North NGOs address the most important environmental, agri-food, and climate problems that affect the communities or constituencies your organization serves?
- Very effectively
- Somewhat effectively
- Not effectively
- What can Global North NGOs do to support Asia-Pacific environmental, agri-food, and climate organizations more effectively? (Please select your top three choices):
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Advocate for increased regulations on multinational corporation/s
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Amplify and center the voices and knowledge of Asia-Pacific organizations to Global North governments and civil society
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Foster working relationships and partnerships among Asia-Pacific organizations
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Foster working relationships and partnerships between Asia-Pacific organizations and Global North civil society
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Focus on shifting policies and practices within their home countries to reduce the exploitation and extraction of land, resources, and labor from the Asia-Pacific region and Asia-Pacific peoples
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Increase their activities in Asia-Pacific
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Modify and conduct their activities in line with suggestions, insights, and demands from Asia-Pacific organizations
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Pay closer attention to the work done by Asia-Pacific organizations
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Provide unrestricted funding
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Provide technology or technological equipment
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Provide skill-based training
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Reduce their activities in Asia-Pacific
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Reduce the administrative burden placed on community organizations when they receive funding
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Share research findings
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Do you think people outside the Asia-Pacific region adequately understand the risks that the climate crisis and other agri-food and environmental problems pose to Asia-Pacific peoples?
- Yes
- Somewhat
- No
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Do you think environmental, agri-food, and climate organizations outside of the Asia-Pacific region adequately understand the risks that the climate crisis and other agri-food and environmental problems pose to Asia-Pacific peoples?
- Yes
- Somewhat
- No
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What should Asia-Pacific environmental, agri-food, and climate organizations demand from the international community to address the social and environmental problems facing Asia-Pacific communities? (Please select your top three choices):
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Genuine commitment to transparent, equitable, and mutually beneficial trade agreements
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Greater commitment to reducing GHG emissions and fossil fuel financing
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Increased access to unrestricted private funds
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Increased access to unrestricted public funds
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Increased regulations on multinational corporation/s
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Increased technology transfer
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Improve equitable transnational dispute mechanisms
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Public investment in Asia-Pacific sustainable agriculture
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Public investment in Asia-Pacific education
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Public investment in Asia-Pacific physical infrastructures
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Public investment in Asia-Pacific public health infrastructures
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Increase the presence of Asia-Pacific organizations in international bodies
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Oppose the militarization of the Asia-Pacific region
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Oppose impunity for gender-based and caste/ethnicity-based violence in environmental/resource-related conflicts
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Challenge the economic exploitation of Asia-Pacific’s natural resources by multinational corporation/s
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Please include additional information you would like to share with our team, or use this space to elaborate on any of your answers to the survey questions (write-in your response below):
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