{"id":155517,"date":"2021-12-22T19:35:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=155517"},"modified":"2021-12-22T19:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:05:44","slug":"niti-aayog-signs-a-statement-of-intent-with-united-nations-world-food-program-wfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/niti-aayog-signs-a-statement-of-intent-with-united-nations-world-food-program-wfp\/","title":{"rendered":"NITI Aayog signs a Statement of Intent with United Nations World Food Program (WFP)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the news?<\/b><\/h5>\n

NITI Aayog has signed a Statement of Intent (SOI) with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP)<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why did NITI Aayog sign the SOI with WFP?<\/b><\/h5>\n

The Government of India (GoI) has observed 2018 as a year of millets to encourage and promote millet production. Leading this initiative further, GoI has supported the UN General Assembly resolution for declaring 2023 as International Year of Millets.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, numerous steps have been taken to promote millets including establishment of Center for Excellence, Integration of nutri-cereals<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in National Food Security Act<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and establishment of Millet Mission in multiple states.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite this, various challenges in terms of production, distribution and adaptability among consumers remain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hence, this SOI aims to identify and address those challenges.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Must Read<\/strong>: Millets could help India mitigate malnutrition and climate change<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
How will the partnership address the challenges? <\/b><\/h5>\n
The partnership focuses on:<\/span><\/h5>\n

\u2013 <\/b>mainstreaming of millets and supporting India in taking lead globally in knowledge exchange using the opportunity of 2023 as an International Year of Millets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 <\/b>Strategic and technical collaboration to strengthen the climate resilient agriculture for enhanced food and nutrition security in India.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the activities that will be undertaken under the partnership? <\/b><\/h5>\n

a) <\/b>Joint development of a compendium of good practices around millets,<\/span> b) <\/b>Provide technical support to selected states for scaling up millets, <\/span>c)<\/b> Use India\u2019s expertise to benefit other developing countries for millets mainstreaming and <\/span>d) <\/b>Build capacities for climate resilient and adaptive livelihood practices.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u2018<\/b>NITI Aayog signs a Statement of Intent with United Nations World Food Program (WFP)<\/b>\u2019<\/b> published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on 22nd<\/sup> Dec 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the news? NITI Aayog has signed a Statement of Intent (SOI) with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). Why did NITI Aayog sign the SOI with WFP? The Government of India (GoI) has observed 2018 as a year of millets to encourage and promote millet production. Leading this initiative further, GoI has… Continue reading NITI Aayog signs a Statement of Intent with United Nations World Food Program (WFP)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-155517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704864562},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}