New Delhi, Sep 25: Primus Partners India Group CEO & Co-founder Nilaya Varma participated in “The Future of Climate-Smart Agriculture”, a New York Climate Week 2026 session bringing together global leaders, innovators and investors to discuss how technology and innovation can reshape food systems and strengthen climate resilience.

Hosted by Evergreen Innovation Platform and partners, the session brought together perspectives from the US, India and Israel on the evolving landscape of climate-smart agriculture, with discussions focused on helping farmers adapt to climate change, revitalising soil health and building more resilient food systems.

As part of the panel discussion, “Innovation as a Pathway to Climate Resilience in Global Food Systems”, Nilaya Varma joined global experts to examine how emerging technologies, cross-border collaboration and innovation-led approaches can support the transition towards more sustainable and resilient agricultural systems. The session brought together stakeholders from across climate technology, agrifood, investment, policy and research, reflecting the increasingly interconnected nature of food security and climate action.

Speaking at the session, Nilaya Varma said,

 “Climate resilience in agriculture is no longer only about adapting to changing weather patterns. It is about rethinking the entire food system through technology, innovation, finance and stronger collaboration across stakeholders. Farmers are among the world’s most under-recognised entrepreneurs, investing upfront and working against variables such as weather, pests and prices that are largely outside their control. Building resilience therefore requires giving them better tools to manage these risks.

India offers a unique opportunity to demonstrate how this can be done at scale. While its small and fragmented landholdings cannot simply be aggregated, digital aggregation can give even a smallholder farmer access to predictive intelligence, risk management and markets. By combining digital public infrastructure with farm-level data, we can enable earlier interventions, improve access to finance and move from responding to agricultural distress after it occurs towards building resilience before it does.”

The discussion also highlighted the importance of moving climate-smart agricultural solutions from innovation and pilot stages towards wider adoption and scale. This includes strengthening collaboration between innovators, investors, policymakers, farmers and industry stakeholders, while ensuring that climate technologies address practical challenges across the agricultural value chain.

For India, this presents an opportunity to leverage its growing technology ecosystem and experience in building scalable digital infrastructure to strengthen agricultural productivity, resource efficiency and climate resilience. Digital platforms can also help overcome some of the structural constraints created by fragmented landholdings by enabling small farmers to access information, risk management tools, finance and markets at scale.

Climate-smart agriculture broadly seeks to address the interconnected objectives of agricultural productivity and incomes, resilience to climate change, and the reduction or removal of greenhouse gas emissions.

The New York Climate Week session brought together participants from across the climate-tech and agrifood ecosystem, including investors, entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, policymakers, researchers and NGOs, creating a platform for cross-market dialogue on the future of sustainable food systems.