Deep Dive Session 2.1: Accelerating Climate Smart Seed Development through “Seeds Without Borders” Regional Collaboration

The session will focus on challenges in the Pakistan’s seed system and seed development and identify how the Seeds Without Borders can assist the country’s efforts on expediting climate-change resilient seed development by researchers and distributions for vulnerable groups such as smallholder farmers and women farm worker through “Seeds Without Borders” cooperation.

Moderator:

• Noriko Sato, Senior Natural Resources Specialist, ADB

Speakers:

• Ghulam Muhammad Ali, Chairman, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC), Ministry of National Food Security and Research (MNFSR), Pakistan 
• Imtiaz Hussain, Member Crop Sciences, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, the Ministry of National Food Security and Research 
• Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Vice Chanceller, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan 
• Jongsoo Shin, Asia Director, IRRI 
• Krishna Dev Joshi, Crop Scientist (Ex. IRRI Senior Scientist)