Ms. Emmy Farha Alias

Emmy Farha Alias is the President of the Malaysian Agroecology Society for Sustainable Resource Intensification (SRI-Mas) and a member of Malaysian Agricultural Economics Association. Currently, she works as a research officer at the Laboratory of Agricultural and Food Policy Studies, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Food Security, Universiti Putra Malaysia. She earned her Master of Science (Agricultural Development Policy) in 2014 and Bachelor of Engineering (Computer and Communication Systems) in 2006, both from Universiti Putra Malaysia.

Her work with SRI-Mas focuses on promoting agroecology for resilient and thriving food systems in Malaysia with transdisciplinary approaches integrating the 13 agroecology principles to strengthen food security, food sovereignty, as well as farmers’ and consumer rights.

Her research interests include food and agricultural policy analyses and modelling, farm management, supply chain and sustainable development. She has developed a vintage model for estimating oil palm production, an econometric model of the Malaysian agriculture, system dynamics analyses on pertinent issues in agriculture such as food security, impact of myGAP certification and modelling of the paddy and rice sector in Malaysia. She is instrumental in the development of the “Pelan Tindakan Produktiviti Agromakanan Negeri Kelantan”.