Beyond Resilience: Can Agriculture Get Stronger Under Stress?

22 Sept 2026
Auditorium
Main Stage
  • What real agricultural systems are not just surviving shocks, but measurably improving under them? What does “improvement under stress” look like in grain and cash crop systems?
  • If “antifragility" exists in agriculture, where is it most visible today and where does it break down fastest (inputs, yields, margins, logistics, or decision systems)?

  • How much of current “resilience” is dependent on external stabilisers such as subsidies, input supply chains, insurance mechanisms, and trade continuity?

  • Can agriculture be redesigned to improve under stress rather than degrade, and to structurally align capital, technology, and biology under uncertainty? Or is resilience still the ceiling of what is realistically achievable?