AJAD Vol. 5 No. 2 features the following articles: (1) Emerging Smallholder Rubber Farming Systems in India and Thailand: A Comparative Economic Analysis; (2) Formation of Social Capital for Common Pool Resource Management; (2) Tackling Household Food Insecurity: The Experience of Vietnam; (4) Religious Festivities and Marketing of Small Ruminants in Central Java – Indonesia; (5) Exploratory Study on Selected Philippine Agricultural Commodity Import Statistics vis-à-vis Export Statistics of the Exporting Countries; and (6) Voices from the Forests: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Upland Farming edited by Malcolm Cairns