Profil des membres
Dr. ANIL KUMAR
Organisation:
M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
Pays:
Inde
Domaine(s) de spécialisation
I am working on:
(i) mainstreaming biodiversity and traditional knowledge in securing food and nutrition. (ii) reducing the environmental impacts of food production and consumption (SCP)
Dr. ANIL KUMAR
I am delighted to join you all in this discussion, thanks to the SDG 2030 agenda for this opportunity, and FAO and other several organizations like SUN, BCFN Foundation, and Food Tank for getting flooded with so much information and calls to action in achieving sustainable food production and consumption.
It’s a well known fact that the impacts of farming system on health of both the environment and humans appear wide-ranging across the socio-political-economic and cultural systems of the world. To my knowledge, documentation of these impacts across the value chain of the system is quite often lacking, even in the developed countries. The life-cycle approach to study the impacts, in particular on biodiversity, water and climate with reference to every major food crop and food system is absolutely essential to promote food sustainability. The south Asian countries, that growing with the biggest undernourished populations in the world need to double or triple their current efforts to achieve the zero hunger challenge goal by 2030 by keeping the food system sustainability at the central place.
In India, MSSRF- a partner in the LANSA program is involved in understanding the impacts of food production on the environment, especially on water, carbon and biodiversity in some of the hunger spots of the country. We adopt a three pronged approach-research to understand the real causes; capacity building of the key-actors including policy advocacy, and on-the ground model building in promoting location specific and sustainable farming systems for nutrition and livelihoods. The first and foremost aspect in making the FSN intervention effective is a trans-disciplinary approach where scientists, professionals, and practitioners from different disciplines related to food production and consumption working in tandem with the knowledgeable, but resource poor farming community men and women. All the interventions of MSSRF are taken with this approach, and also with an integrated framework of 4Cs that to ensure the sustainability dimension. The first ‘C’ is that of CONSERVATION where thrust is given to promote only biodiversity friendly farming practices at the level of genes, species and ecosystems; the second ‘C” is on promoting the CULTIVATION practices where adequate genetic diversity of the targeted crop is protected at on-farm and ensured the soil biodiversity enhancement with low-external input agricultural practices; the third ‘C’ is with regard to educating sustainable CONSUMPTION literacy with regard to nutrition and healthy food habit where food waste and food loss avoided, and finally the COMMERCE ‘C’ for promoting sustainable food markets.
We invite you to visit our websites www.mssrf.org and www.mssrfcabc.res.in to know more about our interventions. Also submitted a readinh on the family farming heritage where the need and plan for some aspects of sustainable food production and consumption is discussed.
Thank you!
Anil Kumar