GIZ in cooperation with Thailand’s Department of Agriculture under Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) organised the Regional Knowledge Sharing Consultation “Sustainable Agrifood Systems for Food Security and Sustainable Development in the ASEAN Region” held on 1-3 May 2017 to discuss how current food insecurity was being treated and what changes were needed to supply adequate, affordable, accessible, and safe food to meet increasing populations while protecting depleting natural resources.
The Consultation provided a platform to experts and key multi-stakeholder actors including government, public and private sectors and civil society organization to exchange their experiences and lessons learnt, issues and challenges as well as approaches of sustainable agrifood systems towards food security in ‘ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems’.