FOOD
SYSTEMS
FORUM 2025

Knowledge Partner

Supported by

Headline Partner

22nd October (Wednesday)

Wydham Grand Hotel, Yangon

8:30 am - 5 pm

Theme for 2025

Building Resilience for Uncertainties

Integrating Mekong CREATES Agri-food Systems Forum

FORUM TRACKS

FOOD SAFETY

Despite the previous multi-stakeholder efforts and some tangible improvements in late 2010s, food safety — a subject approachable only with the involvement of all stakeholders — has been an increasingly neglected topic in Myanmar food systems due to the lack of appetite to adhere to the central institutions. As the nation needs more local production with increased limitations for imports, food safety — once again — becomes a pressing issue to collectively solve urgently.

NUTRITION

Nutrition insecurity in Myanmar is deepening, as families face shrinking incomes, displacement, and limited access to diverse diets. Locally produced, affordable, nutrient-rich foods are critical to meeting urgent needs. This track explores how food businesses, SMEs, and partners can innovate with nutri-dense products, improve accessibility, and collaborate with humanitarian and development actors to sustain nutrition for vulnerable communities while strengthening local markets.

CLIMATE RESILIENCE

Farmers and food businesses are facing the compounded pressures of floods, droughts, soil degradation, and soaring input costs. Building climate resilience is no longer optional—it is essential for survival. This track focuses on practical, locally relevant strategies: nature-based solutions, renewable energy, smarter water use, and climate-smart agriculture that can protect livelihoods, stabilize supply chains, and keep food systems functioning under uncertainty.

Mekong CREATES
Agri-food Systems Forum

Co-Creating Local Solutions for Safer, Smarter Agrifood Systems in Myanmar.

The Mekong CREATES Agrifood Systems Forum 2025 aims to provide a national platform for dialogue and knowledge exchange to advance safer, climate-resilient agrifood systems in the Greater Mekong Subregion. The forum will center around project’s focus areas, which are also the focus areas of the Mekong CONNECT and CREATES Community of Practice (CoP) — Smart Practices: Integrating climate-smart agriculture and technologies for resilience, Safe Foods: Strengthening food safety systems from farm to fork and Inclusive Models: Empowering women, youth, and smallholder food producers.