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Grow Asia Investment Forum 2025
17 September 2025 | Conrad Singapore Marina Bay
The Grow Asia Investment Forum brings together leaders from around the world to solve Southeast Asia’s most pressing food system challenges and investment opportunities.
Key moments at the Grow Asia Investment Forum
“If farmers do better, business does better. When they thrive, our food systems flourish, and so does the world. Yet as we mark a decade of progress, let’s not be complacent. We’ve come far, but there’s more to do-and we must do it together.”
Franky Widjaja
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sinar Mas Agribusiness & Food, Indonesia
At this year’s Forum we celebrated Grow Asia’s Decade of Impact, directly reaching 3.7 million smallholders with climate-smart practices, digital innovations, inclusive finance, and women’s economic empowerment initiatives.
“In 2015 we have a shared vision to transform food systems to be more equitable, healthy and resilient. 10 years on Grow Asia has advanced that vision, it built a new collaboration model, it is showcasing cooperation and country leadership and it engages and benefits hundreds of thousands of producers and farmers and that is the most important point.”
Sebastian Buckup
Managing Director, World Economic Forum
“Grow Asia has proven that when governments, businesses, and farmers come together around a shared vision, sustainable agricultural transformation can happen at scale. We need co-designed solutions for farmers and recognise the complexity and breath of the food system”
Tania Strauss
Head of Sustainable Growth and People Agenda, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum
“55% of smallholder farmers globally live below the poverty line, which means to say the people who are producing our food are going to bed hungry. How is this sustainable in itself to provide more food for our growing population? The whole food and agriculture sector has to come together in a coalition to develop a sustainable secure future for all”
Sunny Verghese
Co-Founder & Group CEO, Olam
“Beyond these numbers, what we are really celebrating today is trust—the trust built between farmers and innovators, between investors and communities, and between multi-sectors and countries working together for a more sustainable future.This spirit of trust is the foundation for unlocking capital—channeling resources, investments, and partnerships that empower farmers, strengthen communities, and drive inclusive, sustainable growth”.
Beverley Postma
Executive Director, Grow Asia
200 Senior executives and officials across the public and private sectors
60% of speakers are women
45% of attendees were women
185 organisations
24 countries
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