Event Brief

The Food Systems Summit India is a national conference organised by FOLU India, with its journey beginning with the inaugural edition in 2024. Over the past two editions, the Summit has brought together diverse stakeholders to showcase evidence, field-tested solutions, and working models across different aspects of India’s food systems.

Building on these experiences and learnings, FOLU India is organising the first Regional Food Systems Summit (FSS) India – Northeast to bring a regional lens to food systems transformation. The Summit will provide a platform for regional learning and dialogue while highlighting locally rooted and community-led solutions that contribute to India’s broader food systems transformation agenda. It will focus on the production value chain of Indian food systems, with a deep dive into practices and successful models of sustainable and regenerative agriculture. Designed as a poster presentation conference, the 2026 Regional Summit includes the following sub-themes:

• Seed and Breed Stock Management
• Soil, Nutrient & Water Management
• Pest, Weed and Disease Management
• Crop Harvesting, Loss & Residue Management
• Livestock and Fisheries management

Regional FSS India 2026 Objectives

• Showcase field-tested methods and practices for sustainable and regenerative agriculture developed by CSOs, FPOs, research institutions, universities, ICAR, KVKs, experts, and farmer groups including women farmers in different Agro-Climatic Zones.
• Foster dialogue among CSOs, grassroots innovators, scientists, policymakers, and donors on the enablers and challenges of scaling such practices.
• Promote peer-to-peer learning across the North-East region.
• Consolidate these methods and practices for further dissemination through a knowledge portal – Food Systems Hub.
• Identify areas for further research, innovation and new practices in specific local contexts.
• To analyse policy level interventions and suggest improvements.

Format

1. Participation – The Summit will host three types of participants Panel Speakers, Presenters, and Delegates. It will convene around 50 participants, including CSOs, FPOs, farmers, government bodies, ICAR/KVK experts, researchers, policy and sector specialists, donors, agri-tech enterprises, and youth leaders.

2. Poster-Based Presentations and Communication: The Summit will be centered on poster-based presentations as the primary mode of knowledge-sharing and engagement. Each one-hour session will have four lightning presentations where participants will have the opportunity to interact with the presenters.

Who can register as presenters
• Civil society organisations, research institutions, individual researchers, and farmers.

Organisations and individuals (in the case of independent researchers) are welcome to submit multiple applications. All applications will undergo a review process, with final selection based on their relevance with the summit themes.