(Track 6: Investing in Bankable Crop, Livestock, and Aquaculture Value Chains)
The session aims to identify key constraints limiting the scaling of sustainable crop diversification and nutrition-sensitive value chains, and to highlight practical, solution-oriented pathways to address them. It will showcase frontier technologies, enabling policies and standards, and public–private partnerships that can strengthen climate resilience, improve nutrition outcomes, and inform ADB policy dialogue and investment priorities.
Roundtable 1: Unlocking the Potential of Roots, Tubers, and Vegetables: Key Bottlenecks and Gaps
The session is designed to share experiences of working for the field-level evidence on the transitional pathways to sustainable crop diversification, nutrition-sensitive value chains.
Moderator: Nozomi Kawarazuka, Scientist, Regenerative Agriculture Department, International Potato Cetner, CGIAR
Panelists:
- Rinzin Wangchuk, Chief and Project Director, Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Bhutan
- Neeraj Sharma, Country Manager for India, International Potato Center: (Building robust seed systems for roots and tubers: Institutional and technical gaps for scaling)
- Delphine Larrousse, Regional Director, World Vegetable Center: Advancing crop diversification for improved nutrition: Key challenges and strategic approaches
- Surabhi Mittal, ADB/Nutrition International: Policy and institutional gaps in facilitating crop diversification and nutrition-sensitive value-chains
Roundtable 2: Scaling Solutions for Diversified Crop Value Chains
The session shares insights on how we design projects and business cases to accelerate the transition to sustainable crop diversification and nutrition-sensitive value chains.
Moderator: Xi CAO, Principal Natural Resources and Agriculture Specialist, SD2-AFNR, ADB
Panelists:
- Mohamed Anees, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Welfare Department
- Md. Abul Basher, Senior Agriculture Nature Resources Specialist, SD2-AFNR, ADB
- Chin Sing Yun, Regional Director, CABI
- Zhang Yu, CEO, Soil Ark Company
