Seeds of Change: Rethinking Food Security in the Indo-Pacific
 
National food policies and tech-enabled distribution models are reshaping domestic food systems across the Indo-Pacific. Countries like India have deployed large-scale public procurement and delivery frameworks to ensure food access, while innovations in agri-tech, logistics, and e-commerce are transforming how food moves from farm to fork. At the same time, global food value chains and trade arrangements are under pressure from geopolitical shocks, climate change, and rising protectionism. This panel will explore how Indo-Pacific nations can integrate domestic reforms with global resilience strategies to build inclusive, adaptive, and future-ready food systems.

• How do India’s procurement-led model and Indonesia’s targeted tech-based approach offer differing pathways to food security, and what can the Indo-Pacific learn from both?
• How can national food policies be designed to translate macro-level goals into micro-level outcomes, ensuring last-mile access, nutrition security, and local resilience?
• How can countries coordinate to stabilise food trade flows and reduce vulnerability to geopolitical and climate-related shocks in global value chains?