THE AGENDA
The agenda
The Global Agenda: Five Pillars
Each pillar is posed as a decision to be made, not a topic to be discussed, and each asks a question of the world as well as of India.
| Pillar | India’s decision | The world’s question |
|---|---|---|
| I. Geopolitics of Agriculture | How do we protect food, fertilizer, energy, seed and water security in a multipolar world prone to shocks? | As food and inputs become instruments of leverage, what rules and partnerships keep the food system open, fair and stable? |
| II. Sustainable Value Chains | How can farmers capture more of the farm-to-market margin, instead of losing it to intermediaries? | As traceability, carbon and ESG rules reshape trade, will smallholders be integrated into global value chains or shut out? |
| III. Cooperative Transformation | Can PACS, FPOs and cooperatives move from welfare vehicles to competitive engines of value creation? | Can the cooperative model offer the Global South a third way between state control and corporate concentration? |
| IV. Technology & Innovation | What will take drones, AI and precision agriculture from pilots to rural enterprises that scale? | Who will own agricultural data, algorithms and autonomous systems, and how can farmers share in that ownership? |
| V. Trade, Finance & Investment | How do we build export-competitive chains while protecting farmers and widening credit and insurance? | How can global capital, blended finance and insurance reach smallholders without transferring value or control away from them? |
Themes under each pillar
- Geopolitics of Agriculture: food security as national security, fertilizer and energy dependence, seed sovereignty, water and climate stress, reconfigured supply chains, strategic stockholding.
- Sustainable Value Chains: farmer-owned value chains, post-harvest infrastructure, traceability and standards, quality and residue compliance, ESG and carbon-linked market access.
- Cooperative Transformation: PACS modernisation, FPO aggregation, cooperative enterprise and finance, South–South cooperative exchange. WCOOPEF anchors this pillar globally.
- Technology & Innovation: agri-drones and Advanced Air Mobility, AI crop intelligence, digital public infrastructure for agriculture, farmer data rights, women as technology entrepreneurs.
- Trade, Finance & Investment: agricultural export opportunity, market access, agri-finance and fintech, crop insurance, blended and climate finance, public-private-cooperative partnerships.
