CSRBOX has been hosting the annual India CSR Summit for the past 7 years. The Summit has been the largest CSR and social impact event in the South Asia region with participation of 1800 organisations and 2400+ delegates every year.
At the 8th India CSR Summit 2021 (7th-9th Dec 2021), we hosted 'Investing in Agri-Value Chains through CSR, Creating Multiplier Effect', with following speakers:
Moderator: Mr. Pravesh Sharma, Director, Samunnati Agro
Mr. Saurabh Singh, President, ICICI Foundation
Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Country Representative, India, Tanager
Mr. Rishi Pathania, CSR Head, UPL Ltd
Mr. Chaitanya Krishna Arimilli, CSR Business Partner-Strategic Projects & Bayer Foundation India
During this insightful discussion, the speakers shared their learnings, thoughts and experiences around the following points:
What are the key Challenges in the agriculture ecosystem that hampers or slows the growth of the sector?
What is the role that businesses can play beyond business as usual to enhance the agriculture ecosystem or to address a few of the challenges, even if it’s about piloting an initiative and creating a case for scaling up
What are the existing agri-value chain-based CSR interventions or donor-funded programs that have been successful in creating a multiplier effect?
How can government schemes on agriculture be leveraged through catalytic funding from CSR and philanthropic donors?
How can affordable agri-tech interventions be useful for sustainable agri-value chain interventions?
What are the fundamental healthcare challenges in India and how CSR can be a catalyst to provide affordable healthcare models that can be scaled up from pilot to public?
How do we look at collaboration as a key and strengthen the existing government set up, undertake strategic initiatives that solve problems/challenges step by step?
