FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
FAO in Asia and the Pacific has four regional priority areas of work that deliver meaningful support to our Member Nations, helping them achieve impactful results leading to better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life for all – leaving no one behind. A further series of FAO Corporate Initiatives that provide country-owned and country-led solutions, such as the Digital Village Initiative, Hand-in-Hand Initiative, the One Country One Priority Product Initiative and the Green Cities Initiative, deliver great impact and are highly popular with our Members in Asia and the Pacific.
Highlights
Regional Priorities
FAO in the Asia and Pacific region has four Regional Priorities to implement consolidated actions effectively and efficiently while promoting digitalization of the agriculture sector and rural communities.
International Year of the Woman Farmer
The United Nations declared 2026 the International Year of the Woman Farmer (IYWF 2026).
Feature Stories
The heat is on - Four examples of practical solutions to extreme heat in agriculture
Heat just used to be part of the job for Sary Kea, a rice farmer in Cambodia’s Northern Tonle Sap Basin.
Events
8/6
2026
12/6
2026
Regional workshop on key challenges and practical solutions for multispecies/multigear (MSMG) fisheries management
08/06/2026 - 12/06/2026
Fisheries in the Asia-Pacific region contribute over 60 percent of global capture production but face significant sustainability challenges, with up to 47 percent of stocks overfished in the Western Central Pacific (Area 71). Management is complicated in this region due to the multispecies and multigear (MSMG) nature of fisheries in these areas.
To address this, FAO in collaboration with...
8/6
2026
9/6
2026
Regional technical forum on food safety alert and intelligence for early warning
08/06/2026 - 09/06/2026
Food safety incidents and emergencies may have devastating impacts on public health, food security and economic stability across regions. With increasingly complex global food supply chains and emerging food safety threats due to climate change, the need for robust early warning systems and coordinated responses at the intern...
Featured Publication
Consumption-based water management
24/11/2025
This brief provides policy-makers and experts with an understanding of consumption-based water management (CBWM) so that they can consider whether it may – or may not – be possible to apply it in irrigation- dependent parts of Asia that are currently experiencing, or are expected to experience, overextraction of water resources, in particular groundwater.
Regional Initiatives
Global Initiatives
Multimedia
Mr Alue Dohong is the Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP), effective 15 May 2025.
38th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (#APRC38)
20–24 April 2026
Contact
FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Maliwan Mansion
Phra Atit Road
Bangkok 10200, Thailand
Phone: (+66 2) 697 4000
Fax: (+66 2) 697 4445
E-mail: FAO-RAP@fao.org