(Track 8: Sustainable Rice Initiative and Low-Carbon Agriculture)
The session aims to illustrate APTERR as a proven regional food security emergency mechanism and public good, while exploring opportunities for tri‑partite coordination among APTERR/AFSIS, FAO‑AMIS, and IRRI on integrated data systems, early warning, forecasting, and evidence‑based policy dialogue. It also aims to examine pathways for adapting or replicating regional emergency mechanisms in other subregions to strengthen preparedness and response capacities.
Opening Remarks
Dato Dr. Abdul Manaf Metussin, Brunei Minister of Primary Resources and Tourism
Scene setting: APTERR experience as a risk, resilience, and institutional readiness for food emergency situations
Dr. Choomjet Karnjanakesorn, General Manager, APTERR Secretariat
Responses from Central and West region and Plus 3: APTERR’S replicability and scalability
- Response from Central Asia as part of the joint declaration in Tashkent establishing a regional food security plan to 2030
Nuriddin Kushnazarov, Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture on International Cooperation, Uzbekistan - Response from one of the Plus 3 countries: support for scaling the APTERR experience in Asia and the Pacific
Junichiro Yamakuchi, Crop Production Policy Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Moderator (APTERR experience and responses): Dr. Roehlano Briones, Senior Research Fellow, Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS)
Dialogues on Improving APTERR and Inter-Regional Resilience Governance on Food Security in Asia and the Pacific
- Dr. Alisher Mirzabaev, Senior Scientist for Policy Analysis and Climate Change International Rice Research Institute
- Boubaker Ben-Belhassen, Director of the Markets and Trade Division, AMIS-FAO
- Dr. Sumanya Ngadee, Head of the ASEAN Food Security Information System (AFSIS)
Moderator: Dr. Roehlano Briones, Senior Research Fellow, Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS)
Open Forum
Closing Remarks:
H.E. Satvinder Singh, Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for the ASEAN Economic Community
MC: Shingo Kimura, Principal Natural Resources and Agriculture Economist, Agriculture, Food, Nature and Rural Development Sector Office, ADB
