It is the world’s largest chemical-free agroecology and regenerative agriculture programme, aiming to transform all 6 million farming families in AP into natural farming practitioners on their 8 million hectares of land by 2030.
Our speakers will share their experience with this government-implemented sustainable agriculture programme and national activities relating to building market awareness and demand for organic products. Lessons for the UK and other countries will be discussed.
Our speakers include:
- Sri T. Vijay Kumar, IAS (Rtd) Ex-Officio Special Chief Secretary to Government of Andhra Pradesh for Agriculture & Cooperation and Executive Vice Chairman of Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (farmers’ empowerment organisation)
- Women farmers participating in the programme
- Mr Minhaj Ameen (Min), Anchor Secretariat, National Coalition for Natural Farming India
- Prof Jo Smith, Personal Chair, The School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.
- Ms Helen Browning, OBE, DL, Chief Executive of the Soil Association
- Dr Poornima Prabhakaran, PhD, Head, Environmental Health and Deputy Director, Centre for Environmental Health, Public Health Foundation of India
- Dr Lindsay Jaacks, PhD, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security, The University of Edinburgh
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COP26 Event flyer (2.71 MB / PDF)
This hybrid event will be held on the 1st November 2021 from 9:30am to 11:00 am UK time / 3:00pm to 4:30 pm IST and can be attended in-person (Venue: Salvation Army, 1 Houldsworth Street Glasgow, G3 8ED, UK) and online via Zoom.
