The first International Conference on Asian Food Security (ICAFS) will be held in Singapore from 10 to 12 August 2011. ICAFS is organised collaboratively by the Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies and the Philippines-based South East Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA). The Conference, themed 'Feeding Asia in the 21st Century: Building Urban – Rural Alliances', will bring together key public, private and civil society players in food security to analyse, discuss and chart directions for the four basic dimensions of food security: availability, physical access, economic access and utilisation.