Increased Farmer Income, Improved Nutritional Security, and More Sustainable Food and Farm Systems in India by 2030

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As the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations Representative in India and as a co-organiser of this National Dialogue on Indian Agriculture Towards 2030, the FAO India team is honoured to have had this opportunity for a unique collaboration on the policy front. Our collaborators for this National Dialogue have been the NITI Aayog and the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, Government of India. We also had the kind cooperation of two other ministries of the Government of India-the Ministry of Jal Shakti and the Ministry of Fisheries and Animal Husbandry and Dairying. We startedworking on this Dialogue in 2019. Thiswas a time when the government was itself considering a directional change in India's agricultural laws and policies. There was agreement within the highest levels in government that a new post-Green Revolution vision for the next decade was needed. The Honourable Vice-President, in his inaugural address at the National Dialogue and in the Foreword to this book, reiterates the direction for the needed change. A Steering Committee under the guidance of the Member Agriculture of NITI Aayog was put together to guide the National Dialogue. The composition of the Committee embodied expertise and experience in several aspects of agri-food systems. Several scenarios on why and how India's agriculture sector should be further improved were discussed in the Steering Committee meetings. The Steering Committee commissioned a set of discussion papers on different themes related to Indian agriculture to get perspectives from a range of stakeholders in the agri-food sector. These were presented at a national conference held during 19-22 January 2021 and were also made available online. The COVID-19 pandemic prevented us from having a large in-person event, but a virtual event allowed an equally large number to participate. The thematic discussion papers were revised on the basis of the feedback received at the conference and they now form the various chapters of this book.