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2 Apr 2025

ASEAN Food Security: Climate Adaptation as Urgent as Mitigation

Paul Teng|Elyssa Kaur Ludher

To ensure Southeast Asia’s food security, mitigation or the reduction of emissions only constitutes part of the solution. Adaptation is just as important.

13 Feb 2025

Reconciling Indonesia’s Food Sufficiency Ambitions with Climate Commitments

Melinda Martinus

As Indonesia forges ahead with plans to become an advanced economy, an honest reckoning needs to occur, to ensure that it does not squander its vast environmental resources for short-term gain.

Climate Change Environment Food Security Indonesia Indonesian Economy

18 Sep 2024

Takeaways from SEACO2024: Rising Food Insecurity, Growing Concern for Climate Change’s Impacts

Elyssa Kaur Ludher

The just-released Southeast Asia Climate Outlook Survey (SEACO2024) finds rising food insecurity due to climate change. The region must heed the clarion call to robustly improve food production, distribution, and access.

Climate Change Food Security Southeast Asia Southeast Asia Climate Outlook Survey

30 Aug 2024

The Vital Role of Nutrition in Climate Resilience and Food Security in Southeast Asia

Elyssa Kaur Ludher|Miriam Romero

Southeast Asia is well-known for its culinary diversity and delights, but while its population’s food security and nutrition have improved over the decades, it is still a region that has relatively high malnutrition – in the form of both under- and over-nutrition.

Climate Change Food Security Southeast Asia

22 Aug 2024

Cultivated Meat in Southeast Asia: Climate Change Provides Food for Thought

Damon Chee|Elyssa Kaur Ludher

The industry, though, must overcome closed minds, high prices and perishability before its product can become a meaningful option in the region.

Agriculture Climate Change Food Security Southeast Asia

20 Mar 2024

Making AI Work for Food Security in ASEAN

Elyssa Kaur Ludher|Kristina Fong Siew Leng

Elyssa Ludher and Kristina Fong examine the contributions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to food security in ASEAN and the hurdles to its widespread adoption.

ASEAN ASEANFocus Digitalisation Food Security Technology

6 Feb 2024

COP28: Enhanced Food Security in Southeast Asia?

Elyssa Kaur Ludher

In line with their climate change plans, Southeast Asian countries need to mitigate carbon emissions in their agrifood systems.

Climate Change COP28 Food Security

31 Oct 2023

Diversifying from Rice to Alternative Crops in Southeast Asia

Elyssa Kaur Ludher

It will be a tall order to effectively switch from rice to substitute grains but Southeast Asia owes it to its future generations to build up food security and crop resilience in the face of a changing climate.

Agriculture Climate Change Food Security

2 Oct 2023

Growing Food Insecurity Among Southeast Asians – And Concern That Climate Change Will Make It Worse

Elyssa Kaur Ludher

Even before the recent rice price rises, Southeast Asians have been experiencing food insecurity and had growing concerns about climate impacts on food security. The ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute’s recent Climate Outlook Survey 2023 provides a snapshot of the scale of this concern.

Climate Change Food Security Southeast Asia Climate Outlook Survey

25 Jul 2023

Rice Production and Food Security in Southeast Asia under Threat from El Niño

Elyssa Kaur Ludher|Paul Teng

The latest El Niño event has just begun. The effects on rice production and supplies are expected to be severe. This Long Read argues for the urgency of putting in place plans for the next year and the following years to allay the worst impacts.

Food Security