ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve
ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve
On 22-23 August 2023, The Special Senior Officials Meeting of the 44st Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (SSOM-44th AMAF) and the Special Senior Officials Meeting of the 22st Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry Plus Three (SSOM-22st AMAF+3) was held respectively through video conference by Lao PDR, as the host country, and the ASEAN Secretariat.
Dr. Choomjet Karnjanakesorn, General Manager of APTERR Secretariat together with Mr. Akinori Ando, a Japanese Expert as well as the APTERR staff members had the opportunity to meet with representatives from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) consisting of Mr. Qingfeng Zhang, Senior Director of Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development, Ms. Yasmin Siddiqi, Director of Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office, Mr. Navin Twarakavi, Senior Digital Agriculture Specialist, Mr. Shingo Kimura, Senior Natural Resources and Agriculture Specialist, Ms. Noriko Sato, Senior Natural Resources Specialist, and Mr. Kiyoshi Nakamitsu, Principal Urban and Social Sector Specialist, on 15 August 2023, at the ADB office in Manila, the Philippines.
The APTERR Secretariat team received a warm welcome from Vice Chairman of the Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF) Dr. Soe Tun and his team during a visit to the MRF office in Yangon, Myanmar on 30 June 2023 to discuss about country’s rice situation update.
Mr. Akinori Ando, Japanese Expert of the APTERR Secretariat, together with Ms. Sita Kumpol, Secretary to Japanese Expert, had a meeting with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Myanmar Country Office led by Mr. Paolo Mattei, Deputy Country Director (Programme), Ms. Melissa Hein, OIM and Performance Reports Officer and Mr. Atisushi Kondo, Head of Rakhine Area office, on 28 June 2023 in Yangon, Myanmar.
This year, the on-site 43rd Meeting of the ASEAN Food Security Reserve Board (AFSRB) was successfully held on 7-8 June 2023 at Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. The meeting was co-organised by the AFSRB Secretariat and hosted by the National Food Agency (NFA) of the Republic of Indonesia, as the national focal point. This is the first in-person meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting was participated by ASEAN country members and related organisation, for instance, ASEAN Secretariat (ASEC), ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) Secretariat, ASEAN Food Security Information System (AFSIS) Secretariat, and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East ASIA (ERIA).
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