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On 6 July 2021, AFSIS Secretariat and Center for Agricultural Statistics (CAS), Department of Planning and Finance (DoPF), Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), Lao PDR had conducted the virtual Inception Workshop on Project for Supporting Agricultural Survey on Promoting Sustainable Agriculture (SAS-PSA) in Lao PDR.
The main purposes of this Inception Workshop are to inform the objective and the future work plan of the SAS-PSA project, discuss the on-going implementations of the SAS-PSA in Lao PDR, and to get suggestions from all the stakeholders in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Lao PDR.
The session was opened by the warm welcome speech of Ms. Vivanh Souvannamethy, Director of CAS, and followed by the notable opening remarks by Dr. Waraporn Saelee, AFSIS Manager.
During the meeting, the delegates were informed with the background of the SAS-PSA Project, along with the brief Methodogy of SDG Indicator 2.4.1. by Mr. NIIMI Tomohiro, the Japanese Expert.
Afterward, activities and work plan of the SAS-PSA Project in Lao PDR were presented by Mr. Sengphachan Khounthikoummane, National Consultant of CAS. The Meeting was informed that 1) The SAS-PSA Project in Lao PDR will be starting from 1 May 2021 to 31 March 2022 2) Household samples are 220 households from 10 districts in Khammuane province 3) The manual and questionnaires have now been updated in Lao language 4) The CAPI, the survey solution programme, will be used for interview farmers.
Lastly, Ms. Vivanh Souvannamethy, Director of CAS, DoPF, MAF of Lao PDR expressed the sincere gratitude to the AFSIS Secretariat and MAFF, Japan for the implementation of the SAS-PSA Project in Lao PDR as it is the fundamental step to improve agricultural statistics and support SDG indicator 2.4.1. in the region.
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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.
On 17–18 June 2026, the 24th AFSIS Focal Point Meeting was successfully convened via video conference, hosted by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in collaboration with the ASEAN Food Security Information System (AFSIS) Secretariat.
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The ASEAN Food Security Information System (AFSIS) Secretariat, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) Japan, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan (RESTEC), and Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA), conducted the 2nd Hands-on Training Courses for Agricultural Statisticians, the Final Workshop, and the 2nd Seminar for Executive Officials under the JAIF Project entitled “Improvement of Rice Paddy Area Statistics and Damage Assessment using Earth Observation Satellites for ASEAN” in Sriracha, Chonburi Province, and Bangkok, Thailand.
