South Asia is an agrarian society with 70% of the region's population employed in the agriculture sector. Even though 31% of the world's rice and 18% of its wheat grow in South Asia, it is home to the largest number of undernourished people.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the earth's changing climate are two global crises that transcend national borders and devastate economies.
For developing economies with limited resources like in South Asia, regional cooperation to combat them has become even more urgent.
As South Asian governments fight to recover their coronavirus-ravaged economies, a new...