The 42nd Meeting of the ASEAN Food Security Reserve Board (AFSRB) hosted by Cambodia was held as a Video Conference through Zoom platform due to the COVID-19 pandemic on 11 May 2022.
There were 37 participants from AFSRB Secretariat, AFSRB Member States namely; Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, ASEAN Secretariat, APTERR Secretariat, OECD and AFSIS Secretariat attended the meeting.
The representatives from the AFSIS Secretariat are Dr.Waraporn Saelee, AFSIS Manager, Ms. Ploypailin Na Nakorn, Technical Staff, and Ms. Prodpran Lomthong, Project Coordinator staff, had attended this meeting.
The purpose of this meeting is to exchange information, evaluate, and forecast food security data in ASEAN and globally in 2021-2022, including statistics on production, consumption, trading, and food reserves for the primary crops of rice, sugarcane, maize, and soybean for the ASEAN Member States.
Dr. Waraporn Saelee, AFSIS Manager, had presented AFSIS key activities, cooperative activities during 2021-2022, and future work plan, including the upcoming the 20th AFSIS Focal Point on 8-9 June 2022, and the Online Training on 11-12 July 2022 from the collaboration of JAXA, ISRO, GISTDA, and AFSIS at the meeting as well.
In addition, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) presented the proposal for OECD-ASEAN cooperation on food security and also informed in the meeting about the online workshop which will be conducted on 8 December 2022 to exchange policy experiences on food security.
At the end of the conference, Mr. Kuy Huot, Chairman from Cambodia, expressed a great appreciation to all participants and their dedication to the production progress.
For the 43rd Meeting of AFSRB will be hosted by Indonesia in the next year.
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.
