11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Auditorium 1: Policy Reform and Regional Integration
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:
Shingo Kimura, Senior Natural Resources and Agriculture Specialist, ADB
Speakers:
- Lourdes Adriano, Consultant, ADB
- Roehl Briones, Senior Research Fellow, Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS)
Panelists:
- Choomjet Karnjanakesorn, General Manager, ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) Secretariat
- Sumanya Ngandee, AFSIS (ASEAN Food Security Information System) Secretariat Manager
- Phommy Inthichak, Deputy Director General, Department of Planning and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, LAO PDR
- Kenji Okuhira, Director for Grain Trade Team, Grain Trade and Operation Division, Crop Production Policy Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Japan
- Cherdsak Virapat, Director General, Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific
- Jiangfeng Zhang, Director, Agriculture, Food, Nature and Rural Development, ADB [Confirmed: Online]
