Economic Cooperations: Food, Agriculture, and Forestry

The APT countries saw robust cooperation in food, agriculture, fisheries and forestry sector under the APT Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF+3). The APT strategic areas of cooperation have been focusing on strengthening food security, biomass energy development, sustainable forest management, climate change mitigation and adaptation, animal and plant health disease control, strengthening of information and knowledge network and exchange, research and development, and other cross-cutting issues. The APT Cooperation Strategy on Food, Agriculture and Forestry (APTCS) 2016 – 2025 is aimed to contribute to the realisation of the ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and to advance APT collaboration in the priority areas of agriculture, fisheries, livestock and forestry sectors.

The key element of APT cooperation in food security is the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR). APTERR was established under the APTERR Agreement signed by the Ministers of the Agriculture and Forestry of the ASEAN Plus Three in October 2011 in Jakarta. The main objectives of APTERR is to strengthen food security, poverty alleviation, and malnourishment eradication among its members without distorting normal trade.

Mechanisms

Other Places

• Cooperation levels:
  • Summit Level Statements
  • Ministerial-level Statements
  • SOM Level
  • Director General level
  • CPR Level
  • Working/Expert Group
  • Track 1.5 & Track 2
• Cooperation pillars:
  • Political Security Cooperations
  • Economic Cooperations
  • Socio-cultural Cooperations
• Other themes:
  • Track 1.5 & Track 2
  • Science, Technology and Innovation
  • Minerals
  • Labour
  • Gender
  • Rural Development and Poverty Eradication
  • Health
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Information and Media
  • Culture and Arts
  • Civil Service
  • Youth
  • Social Welfare and Development
  • Economic
  • Finance
  • Tourism
  • Energy
  • Transnational Crime and Illicit Drugs
  • Political