15th Agriculture Leadership Summit 2024
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15thEdition
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500 +Attendees
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20 +Awards Categories
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50 +Speakers
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2Days
15th Agriculture Leadership Summit 2024 - Navigating agriculture through climate challenge
Agriculture contributes to one third of the anthropogenic Green House Gas emissions. Animal based farming leads with almost 60% of food-related emissions. Climate change has also invariably affected the production and productivity of agriculture. Drought, temperature extremities at critical crop stages, floods, salinity to name a few climatic aberrations have affected yields to a great extent. The onset of monsoon has been erratic since the last few years putting at risk the generally followed crop calendar, jeopardizing the rhythm of agriculture vocation in India. As climate gets more and more out of hand, certain measures need to be adopted to acknowledge the changes and adopt a corrective course of action.
India’s agricultural production has tripled over the time , but today we are faced with challenges of climate and has seen its impact on production and productivity. Being the most populous country in the world and an important agriculture exporter, India is today in a difficult position to maintain food security navigating the challenges of climate uncertainties. Therefore, there is an immediate need to reimagine our food systems through interventions at policy and technology level. To transform the current nature of agriculture, there is an urgent need for deliberations and collaborations. If all the key stakeholders work in tandem, the sector could undoubtedly circumvent the existent challenges and develop a new regime of growth and enhanced production.
The 15" Agriculture Leadership Conclave 2024 to be held on 10-11 July, 2024 at New Delhi aims to bring all key functionaries of Indian and global agriculture system on one platform to deliberate upon key issues and agenda, and prepare a roadmap to Climate Resilient Food Production System. The event will culminate with the presentation of the 15th Agriculture Leadership Awards. Important individuals and institutions, who have played seminal roles in agriculture development, will be recognised at the Leadership Awards. The event makes it a must for one and all in agriculture, food, agribusiness, research, academics, media, farming, trade, development, policy making, implementation and all those concerned with food, farmers and the rural sector.
OBJECTIVES
- To discuss the broad issues in agriculture, food and nutrition, the scope and opportunities for India to achieve sustained growth amid climate change through policy push and public-private partnerships
- To discuss the national and global food and nutrition security challenges, the issue of access, equity and employment and the concerns on account of services, trade and technology
- To discuss the challenge of climate change, and its potential long-term impact on food and nutrition security situation; and to deliberate upon mitigation strategies for climate resilient agriculture
- To discuss various governmental policies, programs and interventions and the role of the states, industries and institutions in taking Indian food and agriculture to global markets
- To discuss the challenges in agriculture and food logistics infrastructure, processing, services, value chain and supply chain management for sustained growth and profitability in agriculture
Program Schedule
Who should Participate
- 1 Political Leaders, Policy Makers and Diplomats
- 2 Officials of the Central and State Governments
- 3 Industry leaders and agribusiness industry executives
- 4 Experts, researchers, academic and extension persons
- 5 Banking, Insurance, Financial, Rural and Development professionals
- 6 Farmers, Processors, Traders, Exporters, Media and Extension agencies
- 7 Entrepreneurs, NGOs, KPOs, FPOs, Students and Agribusiness professionals
Leadership Awards 2024
Agriculture in India has come a long way since green revolution. There is a revolution taking place in agriculture sector, driven by the hard work of farmers, progressive government policies, sustained interventions by institutions and corporates and the innovative solutions by startups and individuals. The role of these stake-holders in driving the growth and value-added transformation of India’s farm sector is commendable and needs to be recognised and felicitated. Responding to the needs at the national level to recognise the contributions of various stake-holders in agriculture, the magazine took a step forward to reward and motivate individuals and organisations for playing leadership roles in agriculture. The institution of Agriculture Leadership Awards in 2008 was the first step in this direction.
The Awards are presented annually in different categories to individuals and organisations, who have made outstanding contributions in their respective fields. The National Awards Committee is headed by------------------------------, with a dozen persons of national eminence as its members. The selection of awardees is done through a two-tier system. The awards sub-committees will be headed by a member of the national committee. All the applications and nominations received by the Awards Secretariat will be put up to the respective sub-committees, which will in turn recommend names to the National Committee for the final selection. The awards function will be held on August 9-10, 2024 at New Delhi. The details can be visited at www.agriculturetoday.in. Kindly send nominations/applications before July 10-11, 2024. Online applications/nominations are preferred.
Award Jury Members
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Jury Chair
Dr. Ramesh Chand
Hon'ble Member, NITI Aayog
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Mr. Vijay Paul Sharma
Chairman, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) -
Dr. Ashok Dalwai
Chairman, PM Task Force of DFI -
Mr. Tarun Shridhar
IAS Rtd Member,Central Administrative Tribunal -
Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
Executive Chairman, Capital India Finance Limited -
Dr. Soumya Swaminathan
Chairperson, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation -
Dr. Purvi Mehta
Deputy Director, Agriculture - Asia, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation -
Dr. Neelam Patel
Senior Advisor (Agriculture & Allied Sectors), NITI Aayog -
Dr. JK Jena
Deputy Director General, Indian Council of Agriculture Research -
Dr. K.C. Ravi
CropLife India -
Dr. Kalyan Goswami
Director General, Agro Chemicals Federation of India -
Dr. Nutan Kaushik
Director General Agriculture, Amity Foundation -
Dr. Rajaram Tripathi
National Convener All India Farmers Alliance -
Mr. MJ Saxena
Advisor, Dabur Foundation -
Dr. MJ Khan
Chairman, Indian Chamber of Food & Agriculture -
Dr. Vibha Dhavan
Director General, The Energy & Resources Institue -
Mr. R S Sodhi
President - Indian Dairy Association -
Mr. TR Kesavan
President, TAFE and Chairman Emeritus, TMA -
Mr. Ajay Rana
President, Federation of Seed Industry of India -
Dr. AK Singh
Director, IARI
MS Swaminathan Global Dialogue on Climate Change and Food Security
Wednesday 20 December 2024, New Delhi
The planet is witnessing rapid change in climate in recent years. There are extremes of rains and temperature and change in weather and seasons. As a result, global food security is facing big challenge. Named after the great Indian scientist, Prof. MS Swaminathan, who played pioneering role in saving India from food starvation during late sixties through Green Revolution, this annual session will bring the global experts to deliberate upon the climate change and food security challenge, and draw up a road map to help the Governments, especially in developing and under developed countries to make policies and programs to deal with the challenge and ensure sustainable food and nutrition security.
MS Swaminathan Global Leadership Award for Sustainable Development
Wednesday 20 December 2024, New Delhi
Named after the great Indian scientist, Prof. MS Swaminathan, who played pioneering role in saving India from food starvation during late sixties through Green Revolution, which resulted into quantum jump in production, this single award @ INR two million will be annually presented to an outstanding leader, who made globally impacting contribution to the food security and sustainable agriculture development through the work in research, academics, technology, policy, industry or development sectors.
