Asia & Pacific
The IPC in the Region
Facilitation
Facilitator: George Dixon – FIMARC, India
Alternate: Tammi Jonas – Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, Australia
Secretariat
Nawaz Hassan – La Vía Campesina, India
IPC organizations are present and active in:
Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
See the list of FAO Member countries in the region.
Regional Consultation of the CSOs
The FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC) is an official forum where Ministers of Agriculture and other high officials from all Member States in the region meet to debate challenges related to food and agriculture, thus promoting regional coherence.
Representatives of regional, interregional and international organizations, as well as from civil society and private sector, are invited as observers to the conferences.
The Regional Conference is organized every two years and is preceded by a Regional Consultation of Civil Society Organizations.
> Next Regional CSO Consultation: 29 and 30 of January 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand.
> Next APRC: the 35th session of the Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific is scheduled to convene in Bhutan in 2020.
> Last Regional CSO Consultation: 6 and 7 of April, 2018 in Nadi, Fiji
> Last APRC: 34th Regional Conference, 9 to 13 of April, 2018 in Nadi, Fiji
