ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve
ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve
The 6th Meeting of ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) Council was held on 13 – 14 March 2018 in Vientiane, Lao PDR. The Meeting was organised by the APTERR Secretariat and hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), Lao PDR. The Meeting was attended by member countries, the ASEAN Secretariat, the ASEAN Food Security Reserve Board Secretariat and APTERR staff members. H.E. Thongphath Vongmany, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of Lao PDR presided over this meeting.
The Policy Workshop on Food Security and Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia was held from 16 to 18 January 2018 at the AETAS Bangkok Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. This event was organised under the partnership of the Asian Development Bank Institute, ASEAN Food Security Information System (AFSIS) and the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) Secretariat for analysing regional cooperation for food security including the role of international organisations in overcoming food emergency and protecting food supply chain during socio-economic crises.
The representatives from the APTERR Secretariat attending the Special Senior Officials Meeting of the 38th ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (SSOM-38th AMAF) and the Special Senior Officials Meeting of the 16th ASEAN Plus Three Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (SSOM-16th AMAF+3) held on 14 – 16 August 2017 in Singapore.
The Preparatory Senior Officials Meeting of the 29th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry, the Preparatory Senior Officials Meeting of the 17th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry Plus Three, the 39th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry, and the 17th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry were held on 25 – 29 September 2017 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Mr.Chanpithya Shimphalee, General Manager of the APTERR Secretariat, together with Mr. Yoshiharu Toeda, Japanese expert, welcomed Mr.Kotaro Suzuki, Ms.Motoko Hanada and Ms. Ratree Makmee, representatives from Japan-based trading company Kanamatsu Corporation for a visit of the APTERR Secretariat’s office on 31 May 2017.
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