On 25-26 August 2025, AFSIS Secretariat participated in the 45th Meeting of the ASEAN Food Security Reserve Board (AFSRB) hosted by Malaysia. The meeting was conducted as a hybrid meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The AFSIS Secretariat was represented by Mr. Charapon Chantorn, Deputy AFSIS Manager.
The meeting served as a platform for sharing information, evaluating, and forecasting food security data within ASEAN and globally from 2024 to 2025. Discussions covered agricultural statistics on the production, consumption, trade, and food reserves of key crops such as rice, sugar, maize, and soybean among ASEAN Member States.
During the meeting, Mr. Charapon presented the progress report of AFSIS in 2024-2025 Q2, the future work plan, and the cooperation projects with Japan, the Republic of Korea, and relevant organizations. He introduced the newly developed Maize Growing Outlook (MGO) Report and the upcoming project AFSIS Geospatial Information System (AFSIS-GIS), aimed at enhancing food security information through geospatial data. He also emphasized the importance of sustainability, in line with the Joint Understanding on the Sustainability of AFSIS, and informed the Meeting about the upcoming Special Workshop in October 2025 in Japan, which will focus on strengthening the financial sustainability of AFSIS.
The 45th AFSRB Meeting concluded successfully with active collaboration among all participants. The 46th Meeting of AFSRB will be hosted by Myanmar next year.
On 19 August 2026, the AFSIS Secretariat participated in the Special Senior Officials Meeting of the 25th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry Plus Three (Special SOM-25th AMAF Plus Three), hosted by the Philippines via video conference. The Meeting was attended by Senior Officials from ASEAN Member States, the Plus Three countries, and the ASEAN Secretariat. The AFSIS Secretariat was represented by Dr. Sumanya Ngandee, AFSIS Manager.
On 29 July 2026, the APEC Policy Partnership on Food Security (PPFS) successfully convened the APEC PPFS Webinar on Strategic Cooperation for Strengthening Food System Resilience via a virtual platform. The webinar was organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) of the Republic of Korea as a self-funded PPFS project to promote strategic cooperation and knowledge exchange on strengthening food system resilience across APEC member economies.
The AFSIS Secretariat participated in the 10th International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS X), held from 8 to 10 July 2026 at the ICE Krakow Congress Centre in Krakow, Poland. Jointly organized by Statistics Poland, Eurostat, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the World Bank Group, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
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On 24–25 June 2026, AFSIS Secretariat participated in the 46th Meeting of the ASEAN Food Security Reserve Board (AFSRB) via a virtual conference. The Meeting was jointly organized by the AFSRB Secretariat and the Department of Agriculture (DOA), Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MOALI) of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, and was hosted in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.
