Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the following staff members who provided valuable inputs in the preparation of this report. From the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific: Sridhar Dharmapuri and Maria Antonia G. Tuazon, who led the preparation of this digital report; FAO colleagues for providing comments and suggestions; and Tianyi Liu for providing a range of inputs that facilitated the preparation of the report.

Last but not the least, we are also grateful to FAO headquarters staff, led by Máximo Torero Cullen and José Rosero Moncayo, who provided guidance in terms of structure and content of the report; Olivier Lavagne d'Ortigue, who provided support for data visualization; and Vaishali Bansal, Giovanni Carrasco Azzini, Valentina Conti, Anne Kepple, Olivier Lavagne d’Ortigue, Hernán Muñoz, Abdul Sattar and Trudy Wijnhoven, who also provided valuable comments and inputs.