East-West Seed, FICCI, and the Embassy of The Netherlands in India jointly organized a webinar titled "How to lift India's smallholder farmers out of poverty,' with three distinguished World Food Laureates and giants of agriculture, nutrition, and innovation -- Simon Groot, Rattan Lal, and Surinder Vasal.
The session was moderated by Meghna Ravishankar, Director, International Borlaug Dialogue, The World Food Prize Foundation and the keynote address was from Marten van den Berg, Ambassador of the Netherlands to India.
Ashok Dalwai, IAS, Chief Executive Officer, NRAA, Ministry of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers Welfare, Government of India, provided the discussion's summation. Gurdev Singh Khush FRS, former Head Plant Breeding Genetics and Biotechnology, IRRI and awardee of World Food Prize, 1996 made a special appearance during the Q&A session.
The webinar's premise was aimed at spotlighting each of the World Food Prize laureates' exceptional, lifetime contributions to agriculture that helped alleviate smallholder farmers' lives while improving the food and nutritional security of millions worldwide.