On 24-30 January 2022, Department of Planning and Statistics (DPS), Ministry of AgriculturalFishery and Forestry (MAFF), Cambodia had visited Battambang Province to conduct a pilot survey as a part of the project for Supporting Agricultural Survey on Promoting Sustainable Agriculture in ASEAN region or SAS-PSA project in Cambodia.
This pilot survey was divided into 3 teams for collecting data of the total 220 household samples in 3 districts in Battambang Province namely Banan district, Thma Koul district, and Bavel district. Furthermore, the enumerators were using the Computer-Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) for data collection.
This activity aims for enhancing the building capacities, knowledge, as well as experiences of the DPS officials and enumerators on SDG 2.4.1 data collection according to FAO protocols in order to adapt and improve the SDG 2.4.1 survey of Cambodia in the national level.
During the survey period in Cambodia, AFSIS Secretariat couldn’t joint the fieldwork due to the spread of new variant of COVID-19, Omicron. However, the pilot survey was completely successful with great cooperation of farmers. For the next step, the data analysis workshop of the SAS-PSA project will be held in February 2022.
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.
