Announcement

5th Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Food Security (ARCoFS 2025)

Building Bridges for Global Food Security

23 - 24 September 2025 (Tue - Wed)

Online at Zoom Platform

It is our pleasure to invite you to the 5th Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Food Security (ARCoFS 2025), to be held virtually on 24-25 September 2025. Building on the success of previous conferences, ARCoFS 2025 continues its mission of addressing critical challenges in food security across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Under the theme "Building Bridges for Global Food Security," this year's conference aims to strengthen international collaborations and foster innovative solutions to ensure sustainable food systems in an increasingly interconnected world. As global challenges such as climate change, population growth, and resource scarcity continue to threaten food security, the need for coordinated regional and global responses has never been more urgent.

ARCoFS 2025 provides an excellent platform for academia, researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and local and international experts to exchange relevant research results, innovative ideas, and recent advances. The conference will facilitate research collaborations through plenary sessions and oral presentations all delivered in an accessible online format.

The 5th ARCoFS centers on "Building Bridges for Global Food Security," emphasizing cross-border and cross-sector collaboration to address food security challenges. This theme recognizes that sustainable food systems require coordinated efforts across disciplines, industries, and nations.

Theme

Building Bridges for Global Food Security

Sub theme

1.    Food safety
2.    Food security
3.    Nutrition
4.    Food loss and waste
5.    Alternative agroproduct development
6.    Climate change
7.    Environmental Economics
8.    Sustainable agrotechnology
9.    Agribusiness

Publications:

All accepted paper will be either published in
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Scopus indexed) or Journal of Tropical Resources and Sustainable Science (JTRSS) (MyCite indexed)

Those papers which unaccepted by IOP review will be submitted to Journal of Tropical Resources and Sustainable Science (JTRSS) (MyCite indexed)

Registration and Submission

a. Registration and submission of Full Paper must be done electronically through the online submission system.
    •  Click on the "Registration" menu to create ConfBay Account and proceed 
        for conference registration by logging in the system.
    •  Click on "Online Submission" menu to submit your abstract(s) / full paper.

b.  ARCoFS203 Full Paper Format - Strictly follow the template which can be downloaded at "DOWNLOAD MENU"

Organiser

Secretariat ARCoFS 2025
5th Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Food Security (ARCoFS 2025),
Faculty of Agro-Based Industry,
Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Jeli Campus,
17600 Jeli, Kelantan, Malaysia.
arcofs@umk.edu.my