Asia-RiCE Team

Asia-RiCE aims to coordinate the evolution of a system of systems which will be greater than the sum of the individual parts and which will facilitate the sharing of know-how, develop capacity, and support region-wide capabilities that reflect the inter-dependent nature of food price and security challenges.

A broad range of stakeholders are of relevance to Asia-RiCE:

– National governments and their agencies responsible for their various rice crop monitoring and food security systems and capabilities;

– Regional intergovernmental coordination bodies with ambitions in this domain, such as ASEAN. Asia-RiCE works with the ASEAN Food Security Information System (AFSIS) to provide crop condition overview information and outlooks to the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor and AMIS.

– Remote sensing organisations and their coordination groups that can support supply of the necessary space data – these include the space agencies of Japan, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and others; as well as the regional space agency forum APRSAF, SERVIR Mekong, and the international Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS);

– UN agencies and their regional activity groups, such as FAO and ESCAP; and,

– Key donor organisations including global (e.g., World Bank), regional (e.g., Asian Development Bank), and national (e.g., JICA) bodies.

Participation in the ad hoc team has to date been predominantly by national implementing agency and space agency representatives. However, the intention is to ensure that the full spectrum of stakeholders are further engaged in implementation of Asia-RiCE.

JAXA

ISRO

GISTDA

IRRI

Mekong River Commission

CESBIO

LAPAN

MARDI

RESTEC

Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy Of Sciences

Universiti Putra Malaysia

Institut Pertanian Bogor

Vietnam National Space Center

VAST STI

Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Resources Geography

Republic of Indonesia Ministry of Agriculture

Laos Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

International Centre for Advanced Research on Global Change

Philippine Rice Research Institute

Asian Institute of Technology

Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change

Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre

The University of Tokyo

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Rural Development Administration (South Korea)

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia)

Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI)

Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research

ASEAN Food Security Information System

Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute