2024/FSMM/JMS - Joint Ministerial Statement - Food Security Ministerial Meeting 2024

We encourage APEC economies to ensure strategic policies and approaches, aimed at improving their agri-food systems to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change, preventing and reducing the impacts of natural disasters, conserving biodiversity, considering relevant data and information, as well as traditional and Indigenous knowledges, as appropriate, to achieve food security in the APEC. [...] We also continue to support the implementation of the APEC Roadmaps on Combatting Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing; Marine Debris; and Small-Scale Fisheries and Aquaculture to ensure the secure and sustainable contribution of the fisheries and aquaculture sectors to global food security. [...] We also support the role of youth in the agri-food system and encourage the sharing of knowledge and experiences to make recommendations on how APEC members can unlock the economic potential of people within the APEC region. [...] We promote and support the private sector’s role in PPFS, including through ABAC, and emphasize the importance of collaboration between the public and private sectors in addressing current and future challenges, with a particular focus on strengthening food security across the region. [...] We note the work on food security, food safety, FLW prevention and reduction, and other outcomes from the 9th APEC Food Security Ministerial Meeting, the meetings of the Policy Partnership on Food Security, the Agricultural Technical Cooperation Working Group, the High‐Level Policy Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology, the Ocean and Fisheries Working Group, and the Food Safety Cooperation Forum.