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FAO India anchors the Food and Nutrition Security Community bringing together professionals from a wide range of organizations and sectors concerned with meeting the country's food and nutrition security goals. The knowledge initiative helps members of the Community promote sustainable improvements in food security and reduce malnutrition among vulnerable households and population groups, by tapping into their collective knowledge and experience.

About the Community

The space created by the Food and Nutrition Security Community of Solution Exchange facilitates development practitioners to share knowledge, seek solutions to everyday challenges, clarify doubts, throw up new ideas and have a open discourse on country’s key food and nutrition security issues. The forum also fosters focused and constructive collaborations and live networking.

The efforts of community members led many local level initiatives; e.g. the introduction of vegetables in the mid-day meal scheme in the schools of Delhi. National Institute of Nutrition has recently released the Dietary Guidelines for Indians. The MS Swaminathan Research Foundation discussed the draft National Farmer's Policy in the network before finalization. Providing inputs to the newly created Food Safety Standards Authority of India, deliberating on critical and contemporary issues like Bt cotton, bio-fuels and climate change are quite useful to the civil society, the public authorities and many others looking for neutral and balanced perspectives on some of these issues. Similarly, the discussions on Bihar Nutrition Policy, the Assam State Dairy policy, Orissa Fisheries Policy are examples of how the network could be effective in, a) bringing grassroot inputs from stakeholders from across the nation, b) strengthening government policies and programmes through such positive collaborations.. More about the Community

Current Discussions

QUERY: Developing Solar Dryer for Dehydrating Vegetables on a Commercial Scale - Examples; Referrals. Reply by 02 April 2012. To submit comments, please write to se-food@solutionexchange-un.net.in

Recently Closed

QUERY: Fertilizer Tree Systems for Achieving FoodSecurity - Experiences; Examples. Reply by 19 March 2012.

To Contribute

To submit new query, respond to the open queries or to share information for the update, please write to se-food@solutionexchange-un.net.in

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Community Testimonials

Case Study: Members inputs helps initiate full fledged Millet Programme in Andhra Pradesh

Ashis Pande, Timbaktu Collective, Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh

Increasing Production and Consumption of Millets, from Ashis, Timbaktu Collective, Andhra Pradesh (Experiences). Issued on 14 April 2006

Successful experiences in and suggestions for reviving and maintaining the production and consumption of millets amongst farmers as well as rural and urban consumers.

Success Story: The Wonder Cauliflower

Vanisha Nambiar, The M S University of Vadodara

My participation at the 2nd Annual Forum proved quite useful where as a part of the Knowledge Mela I got opportunity to meet Dr. Susanta Roy an expert in ‘Integrated Post Harvest Management’.

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