ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve
ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve
On 29 October 2024, the APTERR Secretariat team led by Dr. Choomjet Karnjanakesorn, General Manager, had a great opportunity to welcome delegates from the Department of Agriculture (DOA), Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MOALI) of Myanmar to the APTERR Secretariat.
Dr. Choomjet Karnjanakesorn, General Manager of the APTERR Secretariat, welcomed representatives from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), namely Ms. Nora Hobbs, the new WFP Regional Nutrition Advisor, and Mr. Arvind Betigeri, the Regional Food Fortification Advisor, for a meeting to explore potential cooperation on rice fortification to enhance nutrition support in times of emergency.
The APTERR Secretariat participated in the meeting to discuss on a possibility of potential cooperation on Tier 1 programme between Brunei Darussalam and Japan to enhance food stability and resilience.
The APTERR Secretariat hosted the 2nd preparatory meeting on the extension of Tier 1 between the Philippines and Japan for another 3-year period (2024-2027) on 17 September 2024 at the APTERR Secretariat office in Bangkok, Thailand.
Dr. Choomjet Karnjanakesorn, General Manager of the APTERR Secretariat, was invited to participate in an online meeting on 27 August 2024, hosted by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), to discuss ERIA’s preliminary study to explore the ‘Local Resource-based Food Reserve (LRBFR)’ mechanism in the ASEAN member states.
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