Dear colleagues,
APEC food security Training and Workshop was recently concluded in Beijing from September 7 to 9, 2015. More than 60 experts and young researchers attended this training and workshop. The participants came from different 12 APEC countries like Chile, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Vietnam and 9 non APEC economies. As a new beginning, an online discussion has been also created jointly with FAO Food Security network forum where 59 enthusiastic people from different parts of the world contributed to online discussion about the issues related to this workshop. This experience was also highly helpful. As the head of organizing committee, I would like to thank everybody who took part and contributed in this training workshop and also online discussions.
Today, we live in an integrated world and our learning and experiences are valuable to each other. By coming together, I believe, APEC economy has made a noble beginning of sharing experiences. I am pleased to share with you that we were successfully able to share with each other about different emerging issues like food value chain, market and trade, food security and nutrition, resilience and foresights. The experts’ presentation on the workshop is well appreciated and I would like to particularly thank the speakers also. The presentations are posted in this online discussion for further interactive communication as well.
The training and workshop for food security scholars in the APEC economies is the beginning only and it is a part of the large scale ongoing food security training program undertaken by our institute at CAAS. We look forward to building a scholars’ database along with discussing and putting forward scientific, reasonable and widely used method and system to measure and monitor food security policy in future. We hope our path will cross soon in future.
Thank you all.
Prof. Nie Fengying
Director International Division
Agriculture Information Institute
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Prof. Nie Fengying