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The 42th Meeting of the ASEAN Food Security Reserve Board (AFSRB)

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12/05/2022
The 42 nd Meeting of the ASEAN Food Security Reserve Board (AFSRB) hosted by Cambodia was held as a Video Conference through Zoom platform due to the COVID-19 pandemic on 11 May 2022. There were 37 participants from AFSRB Secretariat, AFSRB Member States namely; Brunei Darussalam Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, ASEAN Secretariat, APTERR Secretariat, OECD and AFSIS Secretariat attended the meeting. The representatives from the AFSIS Secretariat are Dr.Waraporn Saelee, AFSIS Manager, Ms. Ploypailin Na Nakorn, Technical Staff, and Ms. Prodpran Lomthong, Project Coordinator staff, had attended this meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to exchange information, evaluate, and forecast food security data in ASEAN and globally in 2021-2022, including statistics on production, consumption, trading, and food reserves for the primary crops of rice, sugarcane, maize, and soybean for the ASEAN Member States. Dr. Waraporn Saelee, AFSIS Manager, had presented AFSIS key activities, cooperative activities during 2021-2022, and future work plan, including the upcoming the 20 th AFSIS Focal Point on 8-9 June 2022, and the Online Training on 11-12 July 2022 from the collaboration of JAXA, ISRO, GISTDA, and AFSIS at the meeting as well. In addition, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) presented the proposal for OECD-ASEAN cooperation on food security and also informed in the meeting about the online workshop which will be conducted on 8 December 2022 to exchange policy experiences on food security. At the end of the conference, Mr. Kuy Huot, Chairman from Cambodia, expressed a great appreciation to all participants and their dedication to the production progress. For the 43 rd Meeting of AFSRB will be hosted by Indonesia in the next year.
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