National CSO Consultation Thirty-seventh Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC37)

Regional Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 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. The Regional Conference is convened every two years and will result in recommendations that guide FAO’s work and provide further guidance to FAO’s global conference in Rome.

The 37^th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC37) will be hosted by the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The Ministerial Session will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 19 to 22 February 2024, in hybrid modality, while the Senior Officers’ Meeting will be held from 31 January to 2 February 2024, in virtual modality. Government Ministers and delegates from more than 40 member countries across the Asia-Pacific region will participate in the APRC to discuss and express their views on the regional perspectives and priorities that they would like to see reflected in the Organization’s work in line with the FAO Strategic Framework 2022.

In Cambodia, prior to the APRC37, CamboDHRRA and FNN as members of AsiaDHRRA and AFA organized the national CSO consultation, on 22 January 2024, to gather inputs and perspectives from stakeholders on existing and emerging challenges and priorities on agrifood systems, and this will feed into the APRC. See detail report attached. Cambodia_CSO consultation report