The meeting was held in Indore under India's Presidency with the theme "Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability” (BRICS).
- BRICS countries represent nearly half of the world’s population, possess about 42% of global agricultural land and contribute nearly 42% to world foodgrain production.
About the Priority Areas of the Indore Declaration
- Food Security, Nutrition and Livelihoods:
- Recognition of farmers as custodians of traditional knowledge, biodiversity and seed heritage.
- Launch of the Global Forum on Farmers’ Rights in Seed Systems to protect seed rights and indigenous knowledge.
- The Forum will function primarily through virtual modalities coordinated by the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Authority (PPV&FRA) in New Delhi.
- Agriculture Trade and Cooperation
- Support for the proposed BRICS Grain Exchange.
- Launch of BRICS AGRIN (Agro-Inputs, Genetic Resources and Information Network) for cooperation in seeds, genetic resources and agricultural inputs.
- Utilization of the BRICS Basic Agricultural Information Exchange System (BAIES) as a cooperation platform.
- Regenerative Farming, Climate Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture
- Establishment of a BRICS Network of Centres of Excellence on Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture for Climate Resilience & Productivity, as a collaborative, platform initially coordinated by ICAR–Indian Institute of Farming System Research (IIFSR), Modipuram.
- Future-Ready Agriculture
- Expansion of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) in agriculture.
- Establishment of a BRICS Network on Digital Agriculture coordinated initially by IIT Delhi.
