India to host the second ICAR- CGIAR Science and Partnership Week at New Delhi

30 October 2026

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and CGIAR announced that the ICAR- CGIAR Science and Partnership Week will be held in New Delhi from 12 to 17 April 2027. More than 5,000 delegates are expected, including researchers, farmers, government representatives, startups and business bodies. The first edition was held at Nairobi, Kenya, in April 2025. ICAR works under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. M. L. Jat is Secretary, DARE, and Director General, ICAR; Ismahane Elouafi is Executive Managing Director of CGIAR; Himanshu Pathak is Director General of ICRISAT. CGIAR runs 15 research centres in more than 100 countries, ten of which work in India, and the partnership with India is more than five decades old. Sessions will cover climate-resilient agriculture, digital agriculture and AgriStack, farm mechanisation, millets, natural farming, water management and soil health.