FAO in India

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12 February 2024
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved 48 FAO-led projects worth about $2.9 billion –$294 million in project financing and $2.6 billion in co-financing– that will play a pivotal role in fostering a sustainable agrifood systems transformation to end hunger and conserve the environment. India is a recipient country under...
22 January 2024
The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare (MoA&FW), Government of India, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) jointly launched the ‘Investment Forum for Advancing Climate Resilient Agrifood Systems in India’ in New Delhi. The kickoff event for...
10 January 2024
  The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare (MoA&FW), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are jointly launching an Investment Forum for Advancing Climate Resilient Agrifood Systems. The kick-off event for this initiative is a two-day multistakeholder meet...
08 January 2024
On 8 January 2024, a stocktaking workshop was organized to review the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded FAO projects being implemented in Odisha under the chairpersonship of the Principal Secretary Dr Arabinda Kumar Padhee, IAS, Department of Agriculture and Farmer’s Empowerment, Government of Odisha. The current implementation status of the...
23 December 2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) facilitated two significant meetings for the Indian Network for Fishery and Animal Antimicrobial Resistance (INFAAR) in Bhubaneswar. On 22 December 2023, the tenth INFAAR Advisory Board meeting, chaired by Deputy Director...