Two events on sidelines of G20 meet in Indore

Subject : International Relations

Section: International Organizations

Concept :

The first meeting of the G20 Agriculture Working group, will be held at Indore, in Madhya Pradesh from 13th to 15 February 2023.
Around one hundred delegates from G20 member countries, guest countries and International Organizations are expected to participate in the meeting.
The topics of the side events to be discussed on day 1 are stock taking of G20 initiatives in Agriculture and Global forum on climate smart agriculture for food security.
International organisations like Italy headquartered inter-agency platform Agricultural Market Information System, GEOGLAM, Wheat Initiative among others will give representations on the topic.

Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS)

The Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) is an inter-agency platform to enhance food market transparency and encourage international policy coordination in times of crisis.
It was established at the request of the Group of Twenty (G20) in 2011.
Countries participating in AMIS encompass the main producing and consuming countries of major food crops covered by the initiative: wheat, maize, rice and soybeans.
AMIS is hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome/Italy and supported by a joint Secretariat, which currently (September 2016) consists of eleven international organizations and entities.

Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM)

GEOGLAM is a Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Flagship Initiative.
The GEOGLAM policy mandate initially came from the Group of Twenty (G20) Agriculture Ministers during the French G20 Presidency in 2011.
The mandate has expanded parallel to the G20 mandate to include food security concerns and now works to support early warning for international agency response to emerging food emergencies.
GEOGLAM has produced Stocktaking reports for the G20 in recent years. These reports are available for 2018, 2019 and 2020.
The purpose of Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM) is to increase market transparency and improve food security by producing and disseminating relevant, timely, and actionable information on agricultural conditions and outlooks of production at national, regional, and global scales.
It achieves this by strengthening the international community’s capacity to utilize coordinated, comprehensive, and sustained Earth observations.

Group on Earth observations

The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is a global partnership of governments and organisations that envisions “a future wherein decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations”.
GEO membership includes 103 member governments and 95 participating organisations comprised of international bodies with a mandate to carry out and/or make use of Earth observations.
Together, the GEO community is creating a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) that will link Earth observation resources worldwide across the multiple Societal Benefit Areas, and make them available for informed decision-making.