Initiated by the World Economic Forum in partnership with the ASEAN Secretariat, Grow Asia is a multi-stakeholder partnership platform to catalyze action that contributes to inclusive and sustainable agricultural development in ASEAN. Country-led and locally driven, Grow Asia supports market-based scalable solutions with measurable positive impact on inclusive and sustainable agricultural growth, especially focussing on smallholder farmer development and environmental sustainability of agriculture. By 2020, the partnership aims to reach 10 million smallholder farmers, improving farm productivity, profitability and environmental sustainability by 20%.

The World Economic Forum on East Asia is a platform for senior decision-makers from different sectors to explore how enhancing trust can improve regional cooperation and advance critical decisions for accelerating sustainable socio-economic development. East Asia continues to be the world’s economically fastest-growing region and its most populous. It boasts some of the world’s most prosperous economies such as Australia, China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. East Asia is further bolstered by the phenomenal rise of its emerging markets, including Indonesia, Myanmar and Vietnam. Underscoring this economic success, the ASEAN Economic Community will herald in a new era in the free movement of people, goods and services across a contiguous economic bloc of 10 countries with over 600 million people.