Outlook for Agriculture and ASEAN’s Role in Southeast Asia’s Food Security

Authors: Elyssa Ludher/Paul Teng

Published: 18 August 2025

ISEAS Perspective 2025/59

 

Agriculture has been the backbone of Southeast Asia’s economic growth and is crucial for food security, livelihoods and environmental sustainability. The region has some of the world’s most agriculturally productive areas, providing nutrition to 700 million residents and incomes to more than a hundred million farmers. Southeast Asia also contributes approximately 9% of global agricultural exports of food, feed, fibre and industrial products. Meanwhile, ASEAN is also poised to be the world’s fourth-largest trade bloc by 2030.

 

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