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The Southeast Asian islands are one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, a set of complex natural landscapes subject to very strong pressure from agricultural activities.

The SALSA platform is studying how the emergence of new types of farming practices is likely to affect the landscape mosaic in three Southeast Asian countries: Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, and working to identify the factors for change, opportunities and risks.

The platform rests on three strategic pillars, each targeting specific issues for sustainable farming systems:

• The emergence of smallholders who make greater use of digital technologies than previous generations and have new farming practices;
• How those smallholders organize themselves in line with different economic processes;
• Changes in agricultural and forest landscape mosaics. 

SALSA aims to be an innovation platform that is accessible to smallholders and local communities, and to make agricultural and forest landscapes more resilient in the face of socioeconomic and environmental challenges.