Aarti leads the research for the Access to Seeds Index at the World Benchmarking Alliance. She drives the development and implementation of the index while ensuring key trends in the seed industry inform the development of the index. Aarti believes that the private sector has a crucial role to play in advancing the SDGs, and benchmarking is a powerful tool in a way to measure and incentivise business impact towards a sustainable future.
Aarti brings with her wide-ranging experience and knowledge in providing market intelligence data for companies involved in Foods and Beverages, Seeds, Agricultural Commodities, and the Agrochemical sector. She has comprehensive knowledge of Intellectual Property and Plant Variety Protection, Biosafety and Regulatory affairs and Agribusiness Consultancy.
AbstractEnabling environment for seed sector development and way forward
In August 2022, the World Benchmarking Alliance's Access to Seeds Index, in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Seed Association (APSA), conducted a Community of Practice peer learning roundtable focusing on defining what enabling environment is for seed businesses means in South and South and South-East Asia.
The government's responsibility is to build an enabling environment that supports access to seeds. However, companies can contribute to this through lobbying activities or participation in local seed trade associations. Companies can also help to advance local seed sectors, acknowledging the role of local actors, farmer cooperatives, and the informal seed sector. The roundtable discussion featured perspectives from leading index companies and seed associations such as Acsen HyVeg, Advanta, Bayer, East-West Seed, Syngenta, International Seed Federation, APSA, Federation of Seed Industry of India and Thai Seed Trade Association.
On November 15, during the Asian Seed Congress 2022 in Bangkok -Thailand, the audience will hear the summary of the round table session under the topic of "Enabling environment for seed sector development and way forward" from Alice Ingabire.
