Acknowledgements
This report was prepared jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAORAP); the United Nations Children’s Fund East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (UNICEF EAPRO); the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (UNICEF ROSA); the World Food Programme Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok (WFP RBB); the World Health Organization South East Asia Regional Office (WHO SEARO); and the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office (WHO WPRO).
The formulation of the report was led by Jong-Jin Kim (FAORAP), Debora Comini (UNICEF EAPRO), George Laryea-Adjei (UNICEF ROSA), John Aylieff (WFP RBB), Zsuzsanna Jakab (WHO WPRO) and Poonam Khetrapal Singh (WHO SEARO).
The technical coordination for the full report was led by Sridhar Dharmapuri and David Dawe (FAORAP) in collaboration with Roland Kupka and Jessica Blankenship (UNICEF EAPRO), Zivai Murira (UNICEF ROSA), Britta Schumacher and Anusara Singhkumarwong (WFP RBB), Angela de Silva (WHO SEARO) and Juliawati Untoro (WHO WPRO).
Máximo Torero Cullen and José Rosero Moncayo from FAO headquarters provided guidance in terms of structure and content of the report, Olivier Lavagne d'Ortigue provided support for data visualization, while Hernán Muñoz, Abdul Sattar and Olivier Lavagne d'Ortigue (FAO Statistics Division), and Cindy Holleman, Valentina Conti and Giovanni Carrasco Azzini (FAO Agrifood Economics Division) provided valuable comments and inputs. Fiona Watson and Mueni Matunga (UNICEF) also provided inputs and comments.
Mahira Afzal and Tianyi Liu coordinated the publishing process while Allan Dow, Mahira Afzal, Mahina Hussain and Kanokporn Chansomritkul ensured visibility and communications support in collaboration with FAO headquarters. Robert Horn edited the publication for clarity and made it more reader-friendly.
QUO Global in Bangkok provided copyediting, proofreading and layout services.