Deep Dive Session 5.1: Asia’s Rice Market, Food Security Challenges and Policy Responses (Part 1)

The session will share the evolution of rice market in ASEAN and food security policy and discuss the lessons learned from the architecture of ASEAN Integrated Food Security Framework and the implementation of APTERR program based on the outcome of the systematic review of APTERR. Follow-up actions to strengthen APTERR and other regional cooperation initiatives will be discussed during the session.

Moderator: 

• Xianbin Yao, Senior Advisor, ADB 

Speaker: 

• David Dawe, Rice Market Specialist 

Panelists:

• V. Bruce J. Tolentino, Monetary Board Member, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Philippines 
• Ashok Gulati, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, India  
• Cao Duc Phat, Chair of the IRRI Board of Trustees 
• Orachos Napasintuwong, Kasetsart University