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Working Group on Agriculture
Updated: 16 June 2009

Overview

The Working Group on Agriculture's (WGA) focus is on market and market institutions; transfer of know-how, experiences, and technology; and public-private sector partnerships in four subsectors: crops, livestock, fisheries, and natural resources.

The WGA is the mechanism for agricultural cooperation, initiated under the GMS Tenth Ministerial Conference in November 2001 to serve as an advisory body to GMS Ministerial-level conferences on agricultural issues. An Inception Workshop was held in July 2002 in Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic, to define a framework and scope for regional cooperation in agriculture