CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change

1. CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change

2. Outline of Presentation CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change • ASEAN Brief Background • 2. Agriculture in ASEAN • 3. ASEAN and Food Security Policies and • Action • 4. ASEAN and Climate Change • 5. CSO Analysis /Reflection, Advocacy and • Action Points

3. ASEAN Background Information CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change History: Established in August 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand; Brunei and CLMV joined later Objective: regional cooperation to achieve economic growth, social progress, cultural development and regional peace and stability; and to promote greater collaboration on maters of common interest Structures and Processes ASEAN Summit ASEAN Coordinating Council ASEAN Community Councils – based on three ASEAN pillars : ASEAN Political Security Community Council ASEAN Economic Community Council ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community

4. Agriculture in ASEAN

5. Share of Agriculture to GDP of ASEAN Countries is minimal.

6. Agriculture continues to be a major source of employment in many ASEAN countries

7. Challenges faced by small men and women farmers and agricultural producers CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change • Limited public and private investment in agriculture • Impacts of trade and investment liberalization • AFTA CEPT, ASEAN China FTA, ASEAN • India FTA, Asean Korea FTA, ASEAN • Australia and New Zealand FTA • Climate change

8. ASEAN and Food Security

9. ASEAN’s long term policy objectives on agriculture and food security CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change • Mandate and Policy Guidance from the Ministerial Understanding on ASEAN Cooperation in Food, Agriculture and Forestry, 1993 • Strengthening food security in the region • Promotion and facilitation of intra-ASEAN trade • 3. Generation and transfer of technology to increase productivity • 4. Agricultural rural community and human resource development • 5. Private sector involvement and investment • 6. Management and conservation of natural resources for sustainable development • 7. Strengthening ASEAN cooperation and joint approaches in addressing international and regional issues

10. The ASEAN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK ON FOOD SECURITY (AIFS)

11. How are these translated into concrete plans of action for agriculture? CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change • Series of Strategic Plan of Action on ASEAN Cooperation in Food, Agriculture and Forestry • (1994 – 2004, 2005-2010) • Shift of focus from cooperation in food production and supply to facilitating intra and extra ASEAN trade in agriculture, fishery and forestry products • Buzzwords – international competitiveness, food security, updated information on commodity supply demand and trade

12. CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change Some reflections / analysis • ASEAN policy declaration reflect general calls of food security, • sustainable agricultural development, climate change mitigation and • adaptation, among others • ButASEAN programs and activities do not ... • The only binding aspect of ASEAN policies are those that relate to the • FTAs • SPAs formed through top down process (and by technocrats) and, as such, are not reflective of the agenda of small men and women farmers and agricultural producers

13. CSO Advocacy and Action Points

14. ASEAN and Climate Change

15. CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change ASEAN and Climate Change • ASEAN Members account for a small • portion of global GHG Emission • Southeast Asia most vulnerable to • climate change because of the region’s • location and geo-physical characteristics • Region highly unprepared to cope with • climate change • Food security threatened by climate change

16. CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change ASEAN’s work on Climate Change • Declaration on Climate Change in 2007 • Calls for closer cooperation on mitigation and • adaptation • Focus of individual national communication is • mitigation more than adaptation • Terms of Reference of the Climate Change • Initiative, created an ASEAN Working Group on • Climate Change • Vietnam pushing for ASEAN association to the Copenhagen Accord; opposed by other countries

17. ASEAN Position vs. Copenhagen Accord

18. CSO Engagement with ASEAN

19. CSO Engagement in ASEAN

20. CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change Civil Society Advocacies • Food sovereignty: the right of peoples to healthy and • culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically • sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define • their own food and agriculture systems • Support for community-based conservation and • development of seeds • Support for sustainable community-based food production, • marketing and distribution, also as a strategy for climate • change adaptation and mitigation • Promotion of appropriate farming systems

21. CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change Civil Society Advocacies • Sustained pressure for a legally-binding agreement on • climate change mitigation, adaptation and delivery of • commitments by developed countries under the principle of • common but differentiated responsibilities • Pursue multilateral engagement in the UNFCCC process, • not under the Copenhagen Accord which does not conform • with the ASEAN positions • Participation of farmers, food producers/providers and • consumers in decision-making in food and agriculture at • different levels

22. CSO Advocacy and Action Points

23. CSO Advocacy and Action Points