BRICS Agricultural Food System and Innovations: Hope for Global Food Security

BRICSBRICS (BrazilBrazil, RussiaRussia, IndiaIndia, ChinaChina and South AfricaSouth Africa) countries have systematically initiated in-depth cooperationcooperation in the fields of agricultural tradetrade, product productionproduction, science and innovativeinnovative technology. This has contributed to re-enforcing and addressing some of the SDGs such as food security and povertypoverty. This cooperative agreement highlights the importance of ensuring adequate and sustained food production, mechanisms to alleviate poverty, encourages better nutritionnutrition leading to better health and identifies mechanisms to mitigate against climate changeclimate change. There has also been substantial BRIC investment in scientific educationeducation, research and development and infrastructure. There is an ongoing establishment of public enterprisesenterprises to produce agricultural inputs including afro-chemicals, value-added agricultural productsproducts, equipment and machine tools. Furthermore, there has been a wide variety of policy programmes and funding mechanisms for innovation that focus primarily on agricultural and agricultural-related scientific and technologicaltechnological institutions. Various innovativeinnovative agrarian changes are ongoing in BRICSBRICS countries. These vary from the rise of policy alignment to requirements of the 4th industrial revolution technologies such as SMART agriculture, renewable energy technologies, genomics and biotechnology.