World Agriculture Forum - Innovating for Sustainable Future

WAF

Strategic Objectives

1. Driving Global Agricultural Progress

  • Orchestrate high-profile events and activities, including the annual World Agriculture Summit, to establish a unified global agenda in agriculture and direction in food and agribusiness trade.

  • Facilitate strategic alliances among businesses, governments, and organizations to promote sustainable agriculture and international trade.

  • Establish joint agribusiness councils with various countries to foster international cooperation, investments, and knowledge sharing.

  • Strengthening economic dynamism to amplify global trade and business activities by highlighting growth and investment opportunities in food and agriculture sectors.

  • Stimulate economic growth, job creation, and entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector through increased activities, businesses, technology flow, innovations and investments.

2. Promoting Innovation and Excellence

  • Conferring the prestigious World Agriculture Prize annually to recognize global leaders in agriculture and attract attention from key players worldwide.

  • Organizing the World Agriculture Fair to bring together stakeholders from the food, agriculture, and technology sectors to showcase innovations, foster collaborations, and drive progress.

  • Creating a neutral and inclusive platform for industry, government, academia, farmers, institutions, and agribusinesses to engage in meaningful dialogue, share knowledge, and leverage expertise.

  • Championing data-driven policies that support sustainable agriculture, ensuring food security, and fostering agriculture development at national and international levels.

3. Empowering Agricultural Communities

  • Empowering farmers and agripreneurs by equipping them with essential skills, access to finance, market linkages, and entrepreneurial support.

  • Sharing global success models and social impact by facilitating farmer-industry-institutional partnerships towards better village-level agro-processing, market access, and exports.

  • Fostering collaborative initiatives to address global agricultural challenges, develop innovative solutions, and drive sustainable development through inclusive participation.

  • Establishing a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework, aligning metrics with strategic objectives, informed decision-making, and ensuring high impact outcome.

4. Engaging Globally for Equitable Representation

  • Collaborating with developing countries, advocacy organizations, and civil society to ensure equal representation, participation, and voice in global agricultural discussions.

  • Fostering international cooperation, solidarity, and collective actions in addressing agricultural challenges, promoting sustainable development, and ensuring food security for all.

  • Collaborating with policymakers to develop and implement policies that address the diverse needs of agricultural stakeholders while promoting environmental stewardship.

  • Fostering inclusive partnerships for sustainable agriculture, trade and agribusinesses, investment and technology collaborations and sharing of success models

5. Hosting Annual Global Agriculture Congress

  • Organizing the annual flagship program, World Agriculture Forum Meet, on the pattern of WEF Annual Meet in Davos.

  • Providing a powerful platform for all key stakeholders, including state heads, business and political leaders, experts, and institutions to network, collaborate.

  • Sharing thoughts and strategizing the global agriculture agenda, food and nutrition security, and sustainable development.

  • Showcasing cutting-edge products, technologies, innovations, and solutions to address global agricultural challenges, drive progress, and ensure a food-secure future.

WAF is committed to robust stakeholder engagement, fostering inclusive dialogues among industry, government, academia, and communities, driving global sustainable agricultural development through diverse perspectives, expertise, and collective action. Our engagement strategy encompasses:

  • Global Bodies: Collaborating with esteemed organizations like FAO, UNDP, World Bank, IFAD, IFC, and G-20 to leverage their expertise and resources.

  • Government and Ministries: Partnering with Ministries of Food, Trade, and Agriculture across countries to align policies and programs with sustainable agriculture goals.

  • Regional Institutions: Engaging with influential regional entities like ASEAN, EU, NAFTA, BRICS, AGRA, ADB, and AfDB to foster cooperation and knowledge sharing.

  • Technology Bodies: Collaborating with renowned institutions like ICRISAT, IRRI, CYMMIT, ILRI, and universities to harness innovation and scientific expertise.

  • Corporate Partners: Working with leading corporates in food, agriculture, machinery, technology, and processing to drive industry-wide adoption of sustainable practices.

Through these inclusive partnerships, WAF aims to create a vibrant ecosystem that accelerates sustainable agricultural development, ensuring a food-secure, prosperous, and environmentally conscious future for all.

6. Key Deliverables of World Agriculture Forum

  • To provide leadership to the world with the policy and trade documents, regional and global partnership opportunities and offering platform to the business and political leaders

  • Nurturing and incubating food and agribusiness models, innovations and start-ups and open sharing knowledge

  • To strengthen the world economy by increasing flow of investments, creating employment, catalysing business activities and promoting partnerships.

  • Conducting flagship events on global policy, business and technologies with world political and business leaders joining

  • Organising series of trade events to bring the business CEOs and corporate world of food and agro industry and businesses on one platform

  • Releasing global policies, trade, technologies and knowledge reports to make the world look up to WAF

  • Creating Technology Hubs and Agribusiness Models to share with developing countries for goodwill, and future possibilities

  • Launching Global Food and Agriculture Awards to pull the attention and goodwill of the world leaders

  • Organizing various trade events and activities, creating global business partnerships, cementing joint agri-business councils with various countries of the world.