GMS Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Program Newsletter

This is the inaugural newsletter issue for the GMS Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Program. It features the Inception Workshop and the key findings from the draft Inception Report as it awaits final approval from ADB. The newsletter also focuses on the recent UN conferences on biodiversity (COP15) and climate change (COP26), and how these relate to the CCESP and the GMS countries' respective goals.

This newsletter by the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Program (SAFSP) presents the latest activities and developments in GMS agriculture cooperation. Read about how the ADB funded TA 9916 Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Program (SAFSP) has been designed to assist the GMS countries to tackle key climate change challenges to their agricultural sectors, the latest knowledge product on COVID-19 Food Security Response and Recovery Actions in the GMS, progress on harmonized FSQ standards, and more.

Read about the 18th GMS Working Group on Agriculture Annual Meeting and the webinar on GMS COVID-19 food security response and recovery, as well as planned demonstration sites of the GMS SAFSP, five priority areas of SAFSP support, and more. The newsletter also includes relevant news, knowledge products, and events in the subregion.

This edition of the GMS e-Updates features the 20th GMS Ministerial Conference held on 9-10 September in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.