The report highlights Millets as nutritious, climate resilient crop and, an excellent solution for the current agricultural and nutritional crisis in India.
The paper provides strategic insights that underline India's incredible journey from a ship-to-mouth situation concerning food to institutionalizing 'Right to Food' and establishing itself among limited net exporters of food, ranking very high in most production measures.
As the COVID outbreak started, the Government of India announced food safety schemes like the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) for NFSA beneficiaries and Atma Nirbhar Bharat Package (ANB) for Migrants/Stranded Migrants easing the hardships faced by the poor/vulnerable beneficiary due to economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ policy on South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) issued in 2015, has been evaluated in the sixth year of implementation, in line with the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Evaluation Policy 2016-2021.
Prior to COVID-19, close to 129 million children in the Asia and the Pacific region received school meals, primarily through government-led, national school feeding programmes. Due to COVID-19 school closures, many of these children stopped receiving on-site school meals. Although some countries introduced alternative solutions, school-age children are expected to have been negatively affected by this disruption. Against this backdrop, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBB) commissioned Oxford Policy Management to undertake a review of adaptations to on-site SF in order to inform policymaking and programming in the context of the new reality. This research sought to answer the key research question through an emphasis on gathering data primarily from six countries in the region where Â鶹ÊÓƵ supports SF programmes in different capacities: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Philippines and Sri Lanka.
Assessment of food security, nutrition and livelihoods among specific vulnerable population of Odisha such as daily wage earners, returnee migrant workers, small/marginal farmers after announcement of lockdown in response to Covid-19 in 2020.
Assessment of Â鶹ÊÓƵ India¡¯s support to the Government of Kerala to provide fortified THR to young children through the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) during a pilot project.
The baseline report benchmarks Knowledge, Attitudes & Practices among the cooks of India¡¯s school meals programme in Varanasi and Dhenkenal on matters of Food safety, Hygiene, and their comfort with ICT.
This synthesis comprises 32 decentralized evaluations completed between 2016 and 2019 that included country capacity strengthening (CSS) among other Â鶹ÊÓƵ activities.
The report is a summary of Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) initiatives and best practices undertaken by Â鶹ÊÓƵ in India between 2017-2020.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s journey in India has been a long and successful one. It has been fortunate to witness significant positive changes in the food and nutritional security status of people, and substantial efforts made by the Government to address malnutrition. This coffee table book, therefore, puts together this five decades-long journey in India through memoirs and more.
Limited availability of covered space for storage of food grains across India, is a key concern for both the Government and its farmers. To address this challenge, Â鶹ÊÓƵ India is exploring possibilities for increasing storage capacities, especially via Mobile Storage Units (MSU) that are used by Â鶹ÊÓƵ globally.
In order to understand the situation of food and nutritional security among the small/marginal farmers, landless/daily wage labourers and migrant labours during the post COVID-19 period, the Inter-Agency Group, including Oxfam India, Catholic Relief Services, World Vision India, Caritas India, HelpAge India along with UNICEF and Â鶹ÊÓƵ commissioned a study in Odisha, India.
The objectives of the study were to: assess the impact of COVID-19 on food and nutrition security of vulnerable people such as small/marginal farmers, daily wage earners, migrant families in Odisha. Communicating to the government about the seriousness of the problem and providing recommendations. Facilitate in designing short term and long-term responses for most vulnerable community in Odisha.
