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INDIA AND FAO
PROMOTING FOOD SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA AND AROUND THE WORLD
Cooperation between India and FAO began in 1948, evolving over time in response to the complexities of
Indian and global agricultural systems and the country’s development progress. Today, FAO continues to
play a catalytic role in India’s progress in the areas of crops, livestock, food security and management of
natural resources.
Transforming Indian agriculture for

global environmental benefits Matching FAO’s expertise to India’s
FAO is implementing a Global Environment Facility- development priorities
funded Green-Ag Project to catalyse a transformative
FAO assistance in India is shaped by the
change in India’s agriculture sector. The aim is to 2019‑2022 FAO Country Programming
support national and global environmental benefits and Framework (CPF), which is centred on four priority
conserve critical biodiversity and forest landscapes. The areas.
project aims to harmonize priorities and investments
➨➨ Sustainable natural resource management
between India’s agriculture and environment sectors (NRM) for improved agricultural productivity
to achieve national and global environmental benefits
without compromising India’s development objectives. It ➨➨ Stronger food and nutrition security systems
is being implemented in partnership with the Ministry ➨➨ Increase resilience of rural livelihoods
of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare and the State to climate change, recurrent natural
Governments of Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Odisha, disasters and assistance in transboundary
Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. cooperation
➨➨ Increase farmers’ incomes through improved
Following a multi-sectoral approach and building on skills, increased market linkages and value
existing institutional arrangements, the project adopts addition in the agriculture sector
a landscape approach wherein each landscape includes
Jointly formulated with the Government and other
a mix of conservation and production areas. This
partners, the CPF reflects relevant priorities in
involves working with multiple stakeholders to enhance key national development policies and is aligned
productivity while recognizing the critical ecosystem with the UN Sustainable Development Framework
services that conservation areas provide for sustaining (UNSDF) for India 2018-2022.
that productivity. The project’s incremental investment
will serve to catalyse alignment of much larger
government, donor and private sector investments to
promote and incentivize wide adoption of agroecological
practices.
CONTACT
Mr Tomio Shichiri
FAO Representative in India
FAO Representation
New Delhi Building 55 Lodi Estate, Max Muller Marg
110003 New Delhi, India
Tel.: +91-11-24693060
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E-mail: [email protected]
INDIA AND FAO
Food and agricultural policy support Strengthening capacities for
FAO’s Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural nutrition-sensitive agriculture; and
Policy (MAFAP) programme seeks to establish food systems
country‑owned and sustainable systems to measure,
FAO is supporting the Government of India in creating
monitor, analyse, and advocate for reform of food and
an enabling environment to promote nutrition-sensitive
agricultural policies to enable more effective, efficient
food systems, agricultural policies and interventions,
and inclusive policy frameworks in developing and
and effective nutrition education strategies. The project
emerging economies.
is funded with support from the German Federal
In India, MAFAP will complement ongoing Government Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development
efforts to monitor and analyse policies related to food (BMZ) and includes partners from the National
and agriculture for informed decision-making. This Institutes of Nutrition (NIN), Rural Development and
will help to strengthen the evidence base for policy Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) and Agriculture Extension
reforms. This is particularly important in the Indian Management (MANAGE). The aim is to ensure
national context where agriculture, including livestock, nutritional objectives are mainstreamed into the
remains the principal agriculture sector.
source of livelihoods
“Let us forge a true for almost 60 percent of Building capacity for pest
partnership, built on
mutual respect and
rural households and surveillance
86.2 percent of Indian
trust, and strengthened farmers, who are small Through an emergency project under the TCP, FAO
by our joint goal of and marginal holders. is supporting the Government of India in enhancing
reaching the SDGs and FAO is implementing the capacities and developing an Action Plan for the
creating a world free of MAFAP programme in Sustainable Management of Fall Army Worm (FAW)
hunger.” collaboration with the infestation of major maize-producing regions of India.
National Institution for In June 2019, FAW infestations had spread to 20 states
Qu Dongyu within 10 months of the pest first being detected. The
Transforming India (NITI
FAO Director-General project will focus on the promotion of ecology-based
Aayog), Government of
India. IPM and biological control options and review of
regulatory frameworks. It will also support improved
Fostering climate resilient upland early warning and monitoring for FAW (customizing
FAO’s FAMEWS mobile app) to generate real-time
farming systems knowledge on host range and migration patterns in
The Jhum based upland farming system covers Indian agro-ecologies and cropping systems.
approximate 60 percent of the total agricultural area in
the hill states of Nagaland and Mizoram. Approximately, Global knowledge transfer
100 000 ha of forest in Nagaland and 20 000 ha in
To strengthen activities under the South-South
Mizoram are cleared for Jhum cultivation each year.
Cooperation (SSC) Framework, a Memorandum of
FAO is providing technical assistance to the State
Understanding was signed in 2018 between FAO and
Governments of Nagaland and Mizoram under the
the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) to
IFAD-funded project referred to as FOCUS (Fostering
foster institutional capacity development, technology
Climate-Resilient Upland Farming Systems in the
and experience transfer to other developing countries.
Northeast). The aim is to develop smallholder farmers'
The resulting partnership aims to improve access to and
capacity to adapt to climate change by making jhum
exchange of information, knowledge and expertise with
cultivation more sustainable and gender-inclusive. FAO
direct benefits for the services that FAO can provide
is also supplementing the project through Technical
12/2019
to member countries, in particular in relation to the

Cooperation Programme (TCP) resources to develop
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
sustainable value chains for commodities produced
(SDGs).
through agroecological techniques.
Upscaling natural farming systems

FAO is providing technical assistance to the
Government of Andhra Pradesh for scaling up
agroecology through policy support and Farmer Field
Schools designed to improve farmers’ livelihoods and
ecosystem resilience. This TCP project aims to support
the Government’s efforts to reach 6 million farmers and
convert 8 million ha into natural farming fields under
the Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Paddhati (BPKP).

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INDIA AND FAO

PROMOTING FOOD SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE

Transforming Indian agriculture for

to member countries, in particular in relation to the

Upscaling natural farming systems

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