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Regional cooperation for food security in ASEAN: Good framework, but need renewed commitment?
Following the 2008 food crisis, the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) approved the ASEAN Integrated Food Security (AIFS) aiming to address four major components including food security arrangements and emergency short-term relief; sustainable food trade development; integrated food security information system; and agricultural innovation. One of the remaining challenge is to see whether the […]
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ASEAN Economic Community 2015: Challenges and opportunities facing food and agriculture sector in South-East Asia
The Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries will enter 2015 with the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community. The region represented by the association is home to over 600 million people with a large share of them belong to middle class income groups. Some ASEAN members have expressed their concerns about being unprepared […]
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Promoting research on the ICT and secondary ASEAN cities
The Global Food Studies staff, Dr Xiaobo He, recently attended a two-day explanatory workshop ‘Southeast Asia: Competitiveness, Technology, Secondary Cities, and ASEAN’s Future’ on 20-21 September 2013 hosted by Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. The purpose of the workshop was to identify and explore the opportunities […]
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