Chaired by Dr. Jin Ho Yoo,  Head of Climate Prediction Department of APEC Climate Center

Efforts to address the relationship between climate and food availability have predominantly focused on primary economy sectors such as agriculture and fisheries. While issues of production remain critical, it is imperative to address the adverse impacts of climate change on other, often sidelined, components of food security. Climate change adaptation can be achieved effectively through holistic approaches encompassing all dimensions of food security. The keynote presenters will provide an overview of global and regional issues of food security threatened by climate change and address strategies to help climate proof food supply chains.

• • Dr. Jim Hansen (Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University)​
•  Presentation Title : Making Climate Services Work for Smallholder Agriculture: Innovations and Lessons From Across the Developing World

• • Prof. Senthold Asseng (Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, University of Florida)​
• Presentation Title : AgMIP - Agricultural Production, Sustainability and Climate Change

Chaired by Dr. Jong Ahn Chun, Research Fellow of Climate Application Team of APEC Climate Center

Given that agricultural production systems are highly sensitive to climactic factors, it is critical to develop and use reliable climate information to better anticipate agricultural consequences of climactic events. Within this changing climate, sustainability depends on resilience, which may be obtained through the efficient use of climate information in agricultural production and establishing successful short- and long-term adaptation measures. This session will therefore focus on the opportunities and challenges for the utilization of climate information to increase agricultural production and help build food security.

• • Dr. Jong Ahn Chun (Research Fellow, Climate Application Team, APEC Climate Center)​
• Presentation Title : Food Security Enhancement in Southeast Asia under Climate Change through Multi-Scale Crop Modeling

• • Ms. Nurhayati (Director, Public Weather Services, Indonesian Agency for Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics)​
• Presentation Title : Implementing Climate Information to Support Sustainable Agriculture in Indonesia

• • Prof. Yuji Masutomi (Associate Professor, College of Agriculture at Ibaraki University)​
• Presentation Title : Regional Impact and Adaptation Assessment of Climate Change on Agriculture

• • Mr. A. G. Kawamura (Chairman, Solutions for Urban Agriculture)​
• Presentation Title : Envisioning an Agricultural Renaissance

• • Mr. Ja Heung Koo (Director, Global Business Group, Korea Telecom (KT) Corporation)​
• Presentation Title : Private Sector Participation in Building Resilient Agro-food System: Converging ICT & Agriculture in Rural Korea

• • Dr. Hoang Phuc Lam (Head of Medium and Long-range Meteorological Forecasting Division, National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, Vietnam Hydro-Meteorological Services)​
• Presentation Title : Seasonal and Sub-seasonal Prediction of Rainfall and Temperature for Vietnam

Chaired by Prof. Kyeong-Hwan Lee, Professor, Department of Bioenergy Science and Technology, Chonnam National University

In addressing food security from a multi-sectoral approach, a value chain approach is useful in analyzing climate risks, as it looks beyond production and fosters a more systemic approach to risk management.This is pivotal when actors at all levels of agricultural value chains are impacted by climate change, yet these impacts are as varied and complex as the actors themselves. In particular, prioritizing climate resilience in supply and value chains empowers practical and economically sound approaches to reducing poverty sustainably and increasing food security beyond agricultural production. Short- and long-term enhanced climate information can combined with information on food supply, to provide critical climate information for enhanced decision-making. Companies must also play a central role, both as critical sources of information and as catalysts for change. This session will explore the vulnerabilities of value chains to climactic variation and investigate how promoting climate resilience (in households, transporting, waste management, recycling etc.) through the use of climate information can enhance food security.

• • Dr. Monica Petri (Project Coordinator, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)​
• Presentation Title : Landscape Management for Resilient Value Chains

• • Mr. Mitsuhiro Ogata (Executive of Environment Weather Division, Weathernews Inc.)​
• Presentation Title : Weather Risk Management: What WNI Can Do for Your Country

• • Dr. Kwang-Hyung Kim (Team Leader, Strategic Planning Team, APEC Climate Center)​
• Presentation Title : A Model Project for the Establishment of Climate Information Services in Tonga to Enhance Food Security in a Sustainable Manner

• • Dr. Prajal Pradhan (Researcher, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)​
• Presentation Title : Smart Food Systems to Mitigate Climate Change and to Attain Sustainable Development Goals

• • Dr. Tran Dai Nghia (Head, Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Economics Studies, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam)​
• Presentation Title : Value Chain approach and Gender Inclusion in Development of Climate Smart Agriculture: Experiences from Vietnam

• • Prof. Kyeong-Hwan Lee (Professor, Department of Bioenergy Science and Technology, Chonnam National University)​
• Presentation Title : Intelligent Agricultural Production System based on Climate, Crop, and Field Information

Chaired by Dr. Govindarajalu Srinivasan, Chief Scientist, Regional Integration Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia

As disaster management has evolved, the Asia-Pacific region has seen a paradigm shift from response-recovery governance to a risk-sensitive development approach. Agriculture and food production is no exception, with climate-related hazards due to climate variability and change, including extreme weather disasters, resulting in wide-scale damage and hindered socio-economic development. Bottom-up and top-down approaches that use climate information can be paired for large-scale change in agricultural risk management. Community-level educational and training programs, such as those for farmers, are central to raising awareness of climate-related risks and lead to a better understanding of benefits from basic climate risk managements. At higher levels, holistic approaches to reduce the risks associated with climate variability and change are necessary to effectively enhance resilience of provinces or nations. In this session, success cases to implement climate-related risk management measures at different scales will be introduced and discussed.

• • Dr. Hideki Kanamaru (Natural Resources Officer, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)​
• Presentation Title : Towards Transformational Climate Change Adaptation in the Agriculture Sector Using Climate and Agrometeorological Information

• • Dr. Govindarajalu Srinivasan (Chief Scientist, Regional Integration Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia)​
• Presentation Title : Using Climate Knowledge to Create Sustainable Agricultural Systems

• • Dr. Pablo Imbach (Researcher, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT-CGIAR)​)
• Presentation Title : Climate Information Services for Agriculture: from Big Data to Decisions

• • Ms. Imelda Bacudo (Senior Advisor, ​Forecast and Climate Change Project, ASEAN-German Programme on Response to Climate Change (GAP-CC))
• Presentation Title : ASEAN Initiatives in Building Resilience of Agriculture for Food Security

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