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
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WAF 2013 Congress &
Agri-Tech Trade Fair
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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
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Market, Old City, Hderabad
April 2012 Newsletter now available - click here

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