 In today's world, food security is the dominant challenge in terms of food losses, food quality and food shortage. Currently agriculture is mainly focused on main food crops but ignoring some underutilized crops which are very good source of nutrition. In DSF project, our national institutions in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Fiji are doing research on underutilized crops such as taro as an alternative food crop. We encourage the participation of the women and youth to gain the skills of producing good quality seeds, value addition of taro and trading of these taro products to the international markets. We wish the government support this initiative of promoting conservation and utilization of underutilized crops in the region.