The kick-off workshop aims to launch the network on promoting climate resilience of rice and other crops. This network supports the goals of the ASEAN Integrated Food Security (AIFS) and the ASEAN Multi-Sectoral Framework on Climate Change: Agriculture and Forestry towards Food Security (AFCC).
The workshop will bring together the assigned focal persons from the ATWGARD who have been assigned to support this process in 2014. Resource persons from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, who will undertake each of their respective national studies on climate change impacts of the selected sectors, will also be present at the kick-off workshop.