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10.1787/9789264272392-en

Building Food Security and Managing Risk in Southeast Asia

Flag for IGO OECD on May 3rd 2017
This report explores effective policy solutions to the current and future challenges related to food security in the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). While robust GDP growth, rising agricultural productivity and output, and strong growth in agricultural incomes have all contributed to vast improvements in the food security of the region, 60 million people remain undernourished. ASEAN governments have therefore justifiably kept food security as a policy priority. The regional policy architecture set out in ASEAN frameworks provides sound guidance, yet some of the current policies adopted by members are not helping to address food insecurity and its causes, including the formidable challenges related to climate change and the need for continued growth in sustainable food production to feed growing populations. This report puts forward a number of policy recommendations to ensure that the ASEAN agricultural and fisheries sectors contribute effectively and efficiently to ensurin...

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Related SDGs

SDG 2: Zero Hunger ...
SDG 2: Zero Hunger

Target 2.1

End hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round

Target 2.4

Ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality

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S. Wu at University of Cambridge
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Ria Fitriana at Charles Darwin University
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Roderick M. Rejesus at North Carolina State University
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Hoa Hoang at University of Missouri
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Daniel Pauly at University of British Columbia
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Hoa Hoang at University of Missouri
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S. Wu at University of Cambridge
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