SDG 2 ROADMAP FRAMEWORK

SDG 2

ROADMAP FRAMEWORK

STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP

MAY 8, 2018

JUNIPER HALL, INDIA HABITAT CENTRE

NEW DELHI

Dr. P.K. Anand, Shri Krishna Kumar and Dr. T.P. Rajendran

Elements Steering the Approach

• Trust

• Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas

• Leaving no one behind and

• Bottom up approach–

for instance, focusing on synergy among

various stakeholders right from the field

level for meeting food and nutrition security

Village Food & Nutrition Development

Committee (VFNDC)

• Sarpanch

• Headmaster

• Representative Farmers

• Representative Parents

• Anganwadi worker

• ASHA

• Agriculture Extension Worker

• Representative of KVK

• Representative of Watershed Department

• Gram Sevak (of the Panchayat) etc.

Pillars to achieve SDG 2

Foundations to achieve SDG 2

Overall Revamping of Agriculture Sector

i. Demand pull: Increasing incomes, meeting uncovered

nutritional needs, diversification of TPDS basket, deepening

of agricultural processing, India becoming a credible hub of

agricultural exports, are some of the channels to raise effective

demand.

ii. Efficient markets: Greater coverage of APMC and non-

APMC channels, flexibility to bypass all layers and supply

directly to consumers, farm to plate electronic linkages,

availability of reliable information (right from weather, inputs,

pricing, nutritional value, demand etc.) to focus and invest.

Overall Revamping of Agriculture Sector (contd.)

iii. Assured Supply Channels: Assured appropriate

technologies and inputs mix (including compost/ manures,

requisite doze of fertilizers; efficient use based water supply),

and credit and insurance markets, cold chains, connectivity

etc.

iv. Research, Innovation and Extension: Vibrant institutions,

innovations to meet challenges like climate resilience,

sustainability, diversification, spreading awareness and 24x7

farmers friendly extension services.

Stunting – Districtwise Map (as per NFHS 4)

ICDS Coverage

MCPC 2 Chart - Suggested

U5MR Reduction envisaged scenarios for

India

U5MR required trends in Lagging States

Stunting required trends – Lagging States

Stunting required trends – Other than

Lagging States

Anaemia (Women) required Trend –

Lagging States

Suposhit Bharat

Aspirational Districts

• To maximise marginal utility of available resources focus

should be on the 115 aspirational districts identified by NITI

Aayog.

• Themes considered were nutrition, education, basic

infrastructure, agriculture and water resources, eradication of

Left Wing Extremism and financial inclusion and skill

development.

• This effort would also help in better synergy among various

stakeholders including ministries to achieve socio-economic

development of these districts and fastrack reduction of

malnutrition burden.

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Focus needed to tackle Severe Acute

Malnutrition (SAM)

• Diversification of food intake

o Besides higher level of calories/ proteins, other nutrients/ micronutrients

o Monotony of the daily intakes be broken through diversification

• Incentives

o Awards and additional funds to Gram Panchayats for higher coverage for

upliftment of SAM children

• High burden/aspirational districts

o Norms for supplementary nutrition to change in the high burden/aspirational

districts

o Preference in opening new mini Anganwadi/ AoD/ in Gram Panchayats

• Other measures for managing SAM

o Instant mixes like sattu along with instructions in local language

o Train parents, Anganwadi and MDM workers for preparation of nutritious foods

oIntensive check-ups, consultations, tie ups with ambulance, and necessary treatment

o Fixed day camps on ‘Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Day’ each month.

o Frequent measurement for weight, height and MUAC etc.

‘Health’ Centric Focus and Balanced Diet for

Well Being

•Need for evolving ‘health’-centric focus, shifting from the

‘medical’ centric responsive one.

•The physical health aspect as well as mental aspect,

covering stress management, interpersonal relations, and

value system improve physical health.

• The corrective action requires dissemination of knowledge

among all stakeholders about what gives better nutrition.

• Various local food items and their nutritive value be

disseminated.

• The Nutrition Atlas created and placed in public domain by

the NIN should be widely shared with stakeholders.

• Data, monitoring and accountability issues play a significant

role to achieve SDGs

• To meet enormous data requirements for robust monitoring it

is suggested:

o The capacity of the official statistical system be suitably

augmented

o Investments both in terms of money and skilled manpower

o Government should partner with the private sector for

data collection, processing and dissemination

o For this purpose, Rangarajan Commission’s recommendations for

Consultancy Wing need be expeditiously implemented.

Monitoring the Progress

Modernization of Data Collection Tools:

ICT based real time monitoring

Use of tablets, smart phones etc. for data collection

SMS alerts for timely actions

Development of MIS based monitoring

Incentivizing officials for using IT based tools

Establishment of direct visible link between the policy and the statistics

Track each beneficiary/potential beneficiary for nutritional parameters

Community Based Nutrition Monitoring Mechanism

Monitoring the Progress (contd.)

Follow-up and Review is at the key place of the 2030 Agenda of which SDG is at its core.

It shows the political commitment attached with strengthening the Statistical System of the respective member countries.

Initiatives to start include:

Finalization of National Indicator Set which is at an advanced stage, Integrated Monitoring Framework to evolve;

National Policy for Statistics to be framed;

National Strategy as well as the Roadmap need to be urgently defined.

Monitoring the Progress (contd.)

Sustainable Agriculture - Water

RAINFED farming

The basic evolutionary genetic empowerment in the country for crops

and animals is through continued selection for tolerance to water-

deficit and flooding seasons.

Farming technology to suit aberrant situations exist in the seeds/breeds

that farmers have access to for each season.

DRYLAND farming

Minimal rainfall allows certain crops and animals that form the

strength of livelihood agriculture

Irrigated farming

Luxury consumption of water is the bane of the system

Water use efficiency can be enhanced through the implementation of

available policies and regulatory mechanisms

Sustainable Agriculture – Technology

TECHNOLOGY support to farmers to improve farm

efficiency

Adapted breeds and seeds

Availability of unadulterated farm inputs – manures / fertilisers /

agrochemicals

Mechanisation for reducing drudgery and improving farm

efficiency

On-farm advisory service through multiple media systems

Institutional support for knowledge management and extension

to farming families

Sustainable Agriculture – Support

• Promotion of Farm Yard Manure (FYM) with minimal required chemical fertilizers as assessed from Soil Health Cards (SHCs) and assisted by Legumes green manuring

• Utilization of Umbrella Scheme for Farm sector extended up to 2019-20 – Govt. of India contribution of Rs. 33,270 crore

• Due promotion of crops like millets and pulses for better sustainability

• R&D for climate change resistant varieties and animal breeds (higher tolerance for drought, temperature fluctuations etc.)

Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable national food production plan for

INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEMS demands

a) Redesigning of strategies in the management of natural

farm resources – Policy perspectives

b) Recast of state & UT - agricultural development plans –

district agricultural plans

c) Convergence of all players for their implementation

Sustainable Agriculture (Contd.)

Integrated Farming Systems

India has progressed in agriculture through conscious

technological support for IFS.

Farm profitability, farm sustainability and farm resource

management have evolved through various IFS models.

As a large country with diverse edaphic and climate

patterns Indian models of IFS has evolutionary

significance.

Farm profitability depending on aberrant market supports

is the bane of sustaining complete IFS.

Sustainable Agriculture (Contd.)

Farm Income

The global turbulence in trade as much as domestic economic

reverberations of times affect farm income and net returns

Incentives for higher farm income has been tried in various ways

The increase in horticulture crop production absorbed lots of shocks

in turbulent farm income scenario

Novel market interventions including government supported e-

marketing can change the farm income dynamics to attain the policy

for doubling FARM INCOME

• RESEARCH FOR IMPROVED YIELD AND

NUTRITIONAL QUALITY IN MILLETS, PULSES AND

HORTICULTURE CROPS IS WELL-ESTABLISHED IN THE

COUNTRY.

• Concerns raised in terms of adequacy of the genetic

stocks are addressed through national exploration of

available wild genetic base as also by collaborative

programmes with international agencies involved in

global germplasm management.

Sustainable Agriculture – Genetic Diversity

Sustainable Agriculture – Genetic Diversity

(Contd.)

• Presently the NATIONAL crop BREEDING

GERMPLASM and animal breeds GERMPLASM are

secure in the country with ICAR-NARS.

• Their availability for crop and breed improvement is

ubiquitous to all R & D systems.

• Let us keep in mind that research to improve for

specific traits is time consuming and cannot be for

immediate mitigation plans.

ICAR Vision 2030 and 2050 have adequately spelt out its

strengths in terms of anticipatory research in the direction of

developing well-adapted crop varieties and animal breeds

along with attendant production technologies for the

impending weather aberrations and NATIONAL DEMAND FOR

NUTRITION.

Public funding with private collaborations is the road map for

higher research output towards sustainable Indian agriculture

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE – WAY FORWARD

Thank you