The Eighth ASEAN Ministers Meeting on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication (8th AMRDPE) was held on 5 July 2013 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and preceded by the Tenth ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication (10th SOMRDPE) on 2-3 July 2013; Sixth ASEAN Plus Three
Senior Officials Meeting on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication (6th SOMRDPE+3) on 3 July 2013; and ASEAN Forum on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication on 4 July 2013.
New initiatives had been put forward by ASEAN at the 6th SOMRDPE+3 to strengthen cooperation with China, Japan and Republic of Korea. Those planned projects and activities are in the areas of social protection programme delivery by local governments, social protection policies for the vulnerable groups amidst of rice price spikes, enhanced involvement of community facilitators and villages leaders in poverty eradication, promotion of community products of villages, grassroots economic development, diversification of crops production and biogas application in rural areas as climate change adaptation strategies, agricultural production risk management, and sustainable rural infrastructure development.
