Asean Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve 

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The representatives from the APTERR Secretariat attended the 37th Meeting of the ASEAN Food Security Reserve Board (AFSRB) on 26 – 27 April 2017 in Makati City, the Philippines. The Meeting was attended by the representatives from ASEAN Member States except Brunei Darussalam and Indonesia due to the unforeseeable circumstances.

 

The APTERR was established in accordance with the ASEAN Food Security Reserve Agreement back in 1979. Thus, it is mandatory for the APTERR Secretariat to report its progress for each fiscal year to the AFSRB.

The activities of the APTERR Secretariat in 2016 focused on the implementation of Tier 1 and Tier 3 programmes implementation in Member Countries. Meanwhile, the Meeting was also informed with the development of the Food Emergency Monitoring and Information techniques studied by the APTERR Secretariat to strengthen the APTERR Programmes in the future.

The 38th Meeting of the AFSRB will be held in 2018 hosted by Singapore.

 

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 What is APTERR?

 

The ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) is a regional cooperation established under the APTERR Agreement signed by the Ministers of the Agriculture and Forestry of the ASEAN Plus Three at the 11th Meeting of the ASEAN Minister on Agriculture and Forestry Plus Three (AMAF+3) on 7 October 2011 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The APTERR was officially established itself as a permanent mechanism and also marked the official launch of the APTERR Secretariat office in Bangkok in 2013. 

 

We are keen to strengthen food security, poverty alleviation, and malnourishment eradication among its members without distorting normal trade, while the common goal of the APTERR Parties is the assurance of food security in the ASEAN+3 region. 

 

 

 

 

 

Natural Disasters

 

Rice Situations