Beyond the Storms – Climate Adaptation and Resilience in ASEAN Agriculture

In 2025, several ASEAN countries experienced severe tropical storms and monsoon floods, affecting millions of people and straining response capacity. Aside from the humanitarian impact, these weather events illustrate that the region’s agricultural systems remain vulnerable to shocks. The hit to supply chains and manufacturing from the 2025 storms was relatively manageable, but damage to crops and delays in harvesting have been more significant with losses reaching billions of US dollars across the region. With climate change bringing more frequent and potentially more severe extreme weather events, it is increasingly urgent to ensure that ASEAN’s agricultural producers are both resilient and productive, in order to meet both domestic nutritional needs and regional trade for economic growth. This talk at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) will explore how countries are strengthening the resilience of food and agricultural commodity systems, as well as exploring longer term climate adaptation and productivity goals.  

• What issues have the events of 2025 exposed, such as inefficiencies and misallocation in flood control, or environmental violations that have worsened the impact of landslides?

• What infrastructure, capacity, and financing does the agricultural sector need to build resilience against extreme weather events and enhance long term climate adaptation?

• What policy and governance changes are underway in ASEAN countries that will impact land management? What does this mean for supply chains and financiers in the sector?

Speakers:
Mr Tomi Haryadi, Director, Food, Land, and Water Programme, World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia
Dr Sonny Domingo, Senior Research Fellow, Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS)  

Moderator: Ms Khor Yu-Leng, Associate Director, SIIA 

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