The World Agricultural Forum (WAF) is a policy neutral and internationally inclusive agriculture forum that brings together the leaders from the private sector with policy makers and key policy influencers to focus on providing food, fuel, fiber and water to the world’s growing population. The WAF believes that progress is best achieved when all contributors to agriculturally -based food, fuel and fiber understand change and are able to confer on its causes, impact and implications. The WAF seeks to create awareness and educate all stakeholders as to the critical role agriculture plays in rural and economic development, and ultimately, national security to most every economy in the world. Developing countries and advocacy organizations are given an equal voice on the world stage. The WAF is the recognized global organization that brings world leaders together from across value chains and between public and private sectors and civil society to promote a food secure world. The WAF hosts a World Congress every 2 years The next WAF World Congress is scheduled to be held in Andhra Pradesh, India in 2013. The most recent Congress was held in Brussels Belgium from the evening of the 28th November until Thursday the 1st December 2011. |
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2013 Congress dates announced WAF 2013 Congress & Agri-Tech Trade Fair click here for details to be held in Hyderabad, India 4 - 7 November, 2013 |
| The 2013 Congress will be held under the Patronage of His Excellency Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India click for Chief Minister's Press Release Market, Old City, Hderabad |
Message from the Congress Chairman, Jim Bolger: Following our successful 2011 Congress in Brussels, Belgium, we are most grateful to His Excellency Kiran Kumar Reddy for inviting us to stage the 2013 Congress in Hyderabad, India. Hyderabad will provide an opportunity to examine the global needs which must be provided by agriculture in a new, challenging and different environment. The demands and responsibilities placed on agriculture increase – as a source of food, energy, clothing, raw materials and pharmaceuticals while all the while using less water and reducing its environmental impact. The growing prosperity of Asia increases these demands and augments the competition for scarce resources. However mankind has a huge capacity to invent, adapt and recover – if given the tools and allowed to use them. The 2013 WAF Congress calls together all segments of society from business to government, from NGO’s to academe and from finance to science to discuss, debate and determine the future of agriculture. There will be ample opportunity to view and meet Andhra Pradesh, Indian and global leaders in agriculture research and development, industry and government. The Congress will also be combined with an agriculture trade fair to allow plenty of opportunity for commercial exchange. Rt. Hon. James Bolger, Chairman of the WAF Advisory Board and Former Prime Minister of New Zealand |