Jakarta, 3 October 2011
Ahead of a major ASEAN Food Security Conference under the theme “Facilitating Food Trade & Investment, Advancing Food Security”, to be held in Jakarta from today until 5 October 2011, a series of preparatory meetings were held prior to the Ministerial Meetings, including Preparatory Senior Officials Meetings for ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) and AMAF Plus Three.
AMAF will also meet at its 33rd Session on 6 October, followed by the 11th Meeting on ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry Plus Three (China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea). In addition, the first Meeting of ASEAN-India Ministers on Agriculture will take place on 7 and 8 October in Jakarta.
Focus will be on the Agriculture and Forestry Exhibitions, the Special Event on “ASEAN and International Year of Forest 2011″, a signing ceremony for the ASEAN Plus Three Rice Emergency Reserve (APTERR) Agreement, ASEAN and World Organisation for Animal Health MoU on ASEAN Regional Animal Health Information System (ARAHIS), and the Ministerial Press Conference on 7 October.
On top of the Ministerial agenda, food security through the implementation of the ASEAN Integrated Food Security (AIFS) Framework adopted by the ASEAN Leaders in 2009 will be discussed in order to review progress and achievement and set course of future actions. The Ministers will be having a dialogue with representatives from the private sector in order to exchange views and future directions to promote public-private partnership in addressing food security.
