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ASEAN needs to do more to maintain its emergency rice reserves and use them efficiently

Published: Jan. 4, 2019, 3:53 a.m.

b'The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has a long-standing agreement to build and maintain rice reserves to deal with natural disasters and growing food insecurity among its 10 members. The rice reserves are effective, but more needs to be done to streamline funding of and access to the reserves to make sure relief arrives faster.\\n\\nAn Asian Development Bank Institute study found that ASEAN member countries should speed up negotiation for, coordination of, and responses to requests for emergency food aid. \\n\\nRead the transcript\\nhttps://bit.ly/2LOkf13\\n\\nRead the policy brief\\nhttps://www.adb.org/publications/building-food-security-asia-through-international-agreements-rice-reserves\\n\\nAbout the authors\\nKunmin Kim is a task manager at the Asian Development Bank Institute.\\nPaula P. Plaza is a litigation lawyer at Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz Law Offices in the Philippines.\\n\\nKnow more about ADBI\\u2019s work\\nhttps://bit.ly/2Vsanyn\\nhttps://bit.ly/2SzZIQy'