The M S Swaminathan Analysis Basis, Chennai, has entered right into a strategic partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on analysis and programmes round agriculture and meals safety, diet, local weather change adaptation, neighborhood resilience constructing and sustainable livelihoods in India, the inspiration mentioned on Friday.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Bishow Parajuli, WFP India consultant and nation director, and Madhura Swaminathan, chairperson of MSSRF, as we speak.
The partnership will enable combining the strengths of analysis, nationwide and international advocacy, grassroots dissemination and coverage inputs particularly across the facet of diet and resilient livelihoods, mentioned Parajuli. ”WFP and MSSRF are dedicated to delivering options and scalable fashions to enhance meals safety, particularly for the poorest and most susceptible communities. The growing and frequent local weather crises and shocks such because the COVID-19 pandemic have worsened international starvation, threatening meals safety, diet and the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands,” he mentioned.
In line with Madhura Swaminathan, the partnership with WFP builds on a number of natural linkages between the 2 organisations to leverage analysis and advocacy, awareness-raising actions, exploring the usage of applied sciences and local weather companies for the final mile actions for higher neighborhood resilience and adaptation, enterprise evaluation of tendencies in meals and diet safety, working round problems with diet and college feeding and different associated areas.
”WFP in India and MSSRF can even develop and implement joint pilot programmes and advocacy for scale-up together with potential collaboration for local weather vulnerability evaluation in choose states,” she mentioned. A launch from the inspiration mentioned, over the previous 20 years, the partnership between WFP and MSSRF in India has seen pioneering work on meals and diet safety evaluation by way of the creation of a number of nationwide degree meals insecurity atlases, and different coverage and analysis associated contributions in direction of enhanced meals safety.
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