NEW DELHI: The UN World Food Programme’s Executive Director David Beasley met Jaishankar, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Food & Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal and appreciated the country for its food security scheme.
India should share its success story of effective food safety-net programmes as the lessons learnt from them can guide other nations in achieving food security, said a senior UN official.
WFP Executive Director David Beasley, who concluded his visit to India, described India as a "shining example" of how effective social protection can play a crucial role in achieving food security especially at a time when the world faces an unprecedented global hunger crisis.
In a statement, the WFP said that Beasley during his three-day visit met the Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar, Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar and Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog Suman Bery. He also met the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Piyush Goyal. "With the world's largest food safety-net programs, India is a shining example of how effective social protection can play a major role in achieving food security - especially now as the world faces an unprecedented global hunger crisis.
"Lessons learned from India can guide other nations and I encourage India to share its success story with the world," said WFP Executive Director David Beasley. In New Delhi, Beasley visited a school meal preparation facility that provides hot meals to 25,000 students in government schools in the capital. Working closely with the government, WFP is pioneering multi-micronutrient fortification of school meals, building capacities of staff preparing the meals and supporting the scale-up of ration production units.
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