This report was prepared by the OECD with the active participation of experts and representatives from Myanmar, the Philippines, Viet Nam, and Thailand. Jean‑Joseph Cadilhon, Laura Munro and Guillaume Gruère from the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate are the main authors. The following OECD experts provided useful suggestions to improve early drafts of the report: Catherine Gamper (Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate), Rachel Scott (Development Co-operation Directorate), Leigh Wolfrom (Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs), Emily Gray, Jared Greenville, Shingo Kimura, Andrzej Kwiecinski, and Olga Melyukhina (Trade and Agriculture Directorate). Malory Greene and Tiyarat Niamkohphet‑Cader (Global Relations Secretariat) helped identify government contacts in the countries studied. Administrative and editing services were provided by Nathalie Elisseou Leglise, Stéphanie Lincourt and Theresa Poincet from the Trade and Agriculture Directorate. The authors would also like to thank Natasha Cline‑Thomas, Robert Akam, and Michèle Patterson for substantive and editorial comments on the report.
In addition to the experts and representatives interviewed during the field visit, special thanks are extended to the collaborators who provided assistance in organising the field visit and who co‑ordinated the review of earlier drafts of this report in the countries studied: Tisha Pia E. De la Rosa (Department of Agriculture, Philippines), Dinh Pham Hien (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Viet Nam), Thanda Kyi (Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, Myanmar), Pham Quang Minh (Food, Agriculture and Forestry Division, ASEAN Secretariat) and Siriporn Thanaratchataphoom (Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand).