Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network 2023-2024

1402 Transforming agriculture and food systems With countless challenges facing food supply chains and agricultural resilience, food systems will undergo transformation through technology, ensuring food security in the coming decades. The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Israel has launched an alternative protein initiative aimed at fostering alternative protein technology, spreading awareness about the industry and creating a playbook for other regions to adopt alternative protein technologies. The playbook will aim to foster global efforts to tackle climate change and food security challenges (see case study 3). The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution India has expanded its AI for Agricultural Innovation (AI4AI) programme to scale the national digital agriculture framework across Indian states. It has worked with key regional partners to implement the programme. The AI4AI programme continues to work on transforming agricultural value chains and providing technical support for the scale-up of a hi-tech nursery initiative (see case study 4). The centre also hosted bilateral meetings with the government of Saudi Arabia and the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Saudi Arabia to discuss agritech and implementation opportunities.