Subregional Seminar on "Food Price Inflation in South East Asia: Policy Responses to Protect the Poor and the Vulnerable "

(Organized by UNESCAP in partnership with ADB and
the UN System in the Philippines )

7-8 October 2008
Manila, Philippines

• Programme
• List of Participants
• Seminar Report
  
• Day 1 presentations by:
• Ms. Alicia Bala, Undersecretary, Policy and Programs Group, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Philippines
• Mr. Hang Chuon Naron, Secretary General, Supreme National Economic Council, Cambodia
• Mr. Achmad Suryana, Director General, Indonesian Agency for Food Security, Ministry of Agriculture, Indonesia
• Mr. Pisit Puapan, Director, Macroeconomic Stability Section, Fiscal Policy Office, Ministry of Finance, Thailand
• Mr. Vu Anh Pham, Deputy Director General, Bureau of Price Management, Ministry of Finance, Vietnam
• Mr. Leonardo Lanzona, Professor, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
• Mr. Mahesh Patel, Regional Adviser in Social policy and Economic Analysis, UNICEF East Asia and the Pacific Regional Office
• Ms. Dolora H. Cardeño, Executive Director, Educational Research and Development Assistance (ERDA) Foundation, Philippines
• Day 2 presentations by:
• Mr. Urooj Malik, Director, Agriculture, Environment, and Natural Resources Division, Southeast Asia Department, Asian Development Bank
• Mr. Segfredo Serrano, Undersecretary for Policy and Planning, Department of Agriculture, Philippines
• Mr. Hang Chuon Naron, Secretary General, Supreme National Economic Council, Cambodia
• Mr. M.Husein Sawit, Senior Agricultural Economist, Indonesian Center for Agricultural Socio-economic and Policy Studies, Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Indonesia
• Ms. Vannapha Yongchareon, Director, Bureau of International Agricultural Economics, Office of Agricultural Economics, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand
• Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Que, Deputy Director, Center for Agricultural Policy, Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development, Viet Nam
• Ms. Thelma Paris, Senior Scientist, Social Sciences Division, International Rice Research Institute
• Mr. Kazuyuki Tsurumi, Representative, Food and Agriculture Organization Philippines
• Ms. Marilou Drilon, Natural Resources Economist, Agriculture, Environment, and Natural Resources Division, Southeast Asia Department, Asian Development Bank
• Fr. Francis Lucas, Chairperson, Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC), Philippines
• Mr. Raul Montemayor, General Manager, Federation of Free Farmers, Philippines
• Event evaluation summary