(Track 6: Investing in Bankable Crop, Livestock, and Aquaculture Value Chains)
This session convenes stakeholders from the Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security Program to review achievements, reflect on lessons learned, and outline next steps for advancing regenerative food systems across ASEAN, with a focus on scaling regenerative agriculture and enabling the markets, institutions, and partnerships that support it.
Opening Remarks
Yvonne Pinto, Director General, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
Introduction of the ASEAN-CGIAR Program
Kazuki Saito, ASEAN-CGIAR Program Director; Senior Scientist II – Cropping system agronomy and climate change, IRRI
Presentation: From innovation to impact – scaling regenerative agriculture
Edward Allison, Principal Scientist, WorldFish
Presentation: Beyond the farm – enabling markets and institutions for regenerative food systems
Tuyen Thi Thanh Huynh, Team Lead, Food Environment and Consumer Behavior, Alliance-CIAT
Roundtable: ASEAN has identified the promotion of sustainable and regenerative measures in agriculture as a key pillar in its Food, Agriculture and Forestry Sectoral Plan 2026 – 2030. The roundtable will explore, building on Phase 1 of the ASEAN CGIAR Program, how a regional initiative can complement and support country level uptake at scale.
Moderator: Stephan Weise, ASEAN-CGIAR Program Co-Director and the Managing Director for Asia, Alliance-CIAT
Panelists:
- Pedcris Orencio, Senior Officer, Food, Agriculture, Forestry Division, ASEAN Secretariat
- Sumit Pokhrel, Senior Natural Resources and Agriculture Specialist, AFNR-SD2, ADB
- Sokcheng Sim, Director and Research Fellow, Center for Policy Research in Agriculture and Rural Development, Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI)
- Tran Van The, Vice Director, Institute for Agricultural Environment, Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, Vietnam
- Kinnaly Phommasack, Director of ASEAN and Regional Cooperation Division, Department of planning and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, Lao PDR
- Lyra Christina Pinto, Principal Consultant, Climate Advisory
