Partnership to strengthen the climate resilient agriculture for enhanced food in India
NITI Aayog has signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) with United Nations World Food Program (WFP) on 20 December 2021, focusing on mainstreaming of millets and supporting India in taking lead globally in knowledge exchange using the opportunity of 2023 as an International Year of Millets.
Further, the partnership will aim at building resilient livelihoods for small-holder farmers and adaptation capacities to climate change and transforming food systems.
The SoI focuses on strategic and technical collaboration between NITI Aayog and WFP, to strengthen the climate resilient agriculture for enhanced food and nutrition security in India, said NITI Aayog in a release on 21 Dec 2021.
The parties will be working on the following activities:
Joint development of a compendium of good practices around millets mainstreaming in priority states and development of a scaling up strategy.
To provide technical support for scaling up of millets mainstreaming through intense engagement in select states with support from state governments, IIMR & other associated institutions. Parties will jointly organize a national consultation for line ministries, concerned departments of State governments, select academic institutions and organizations working in the field of millets mainstreaming.
To support leveraging of India’s expertise to benefit other developing countries for millets mainstreaming by creation of knowledge management platforms and facilitation of knowledge exchange.
The outcome of this partnership will be achieved in following four phases:
Phase I: Development of a best practice compendium around millet mainstreaming and a scale-up strategy;
Phase II: Support scale-up of millet mainstreaming through knowledge sharing and intense engagement with select states;
Phase III: Leverage India’s expertise to support developing countries for millet mainstreaming;
Phase IV: Working on building capacities for climate resilient and adaptive livelihood practices. fiinews.com
