Exciting News! India's #AnnaChakra, supply chain optimisation tool, developed by @UNWFP_India, @fooddeptgoi & @iitdelhi, is shortlisted for the @INFORMS 2026 Franz Edelman Award for Excellence in Analytics, Operations Research & Management Science
📰https://t.co/9kvN5tA0ex
🏆Excited to share that @FoodDeptGoI, in collaboration with @UNWFP_India & @iitdelhi, has won the #CDSAORSI Excellence Award 2026 for optimising #PDS supply chain with #AnnaChakra! 🚛🌾
✅ 60M+ tonnes moved across 31 states/UTs
💸 20% annual savings
🌱 35% cut in CO₂ emissions
🎉 Delighted to share @FoodDeptGoI, @UNWFP_India & @iitdelhi have won the 2026 CDSA-ORSI Excellence Award for PDS supply chain optimisation! The Anna Chakra tool is transforming foodgrain movement across India🚛, cutting costs💰 & CO₂ emissions🌱, and advancing food security.
Happy International #WomensDay! Women and girls play a key role in food security and the nutritional well-being of their families and communities.
Empowering women and girls fuels progress for everyone. 🌱🤲🌍 #IWD2025@Elisabeth_WFP@UNinIndia@unwomenindia
The 3rd @norwayinindia@WFP symposium on Women Farmers in India, held on 11 Feb, focused on role of women farmers in building 🌱#ClimateResilience. It brought together experts, community, gov officials, and researchers to explore challenges & paths ahead.
Read this piece in @the_hindu on #IDPD2024 to underline the link between #disability and #nutrition and how @UNWFP_India is partnering with @wcd_haryana to focus on gender equality, social inclusion and disability inclusion, by developing capacity of 25,000 ‘Anganwadi’ workers.
Delighted to meet Honorable Minister Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare, Shri Krushna Chandra Patra to discuss our joint work in Odisha and the plans for scaling up grain ATM. Looking forward to a fruitful collaboration. @Food_Odisha@PMOIndia@_anugarg@UNWFP_India
The 2nd symposium on women farmers in India was hosted by @norwayinindia and @UNWFP_India. Speakers focused on enhancing women farmers' access to land, inputs, training, and govt schemes. It also highlighted successful government initiatives in #India enabling women farmers.
It was inspiring to listen to Nidhi Ashok Goyal @RisingFlameNow & Murali Padmanabhan @WFPAsiaPacific share insights from their experiences and years of championing inclusion on how gender, disability & body image create stereotypes, & ways to challenge these.
Looking forward to a chat on disability & body Image being hosted by @UNWFP_India gender results network with Nidhi Ashok Goyal @RisingFlameNow, editor, 'And They Lived...Ever After; Disabled Women Retell Fairy Tales & Murali Padmanabhan @WFPAsiaPacific tomorrow at 11 am
@UNWFP_India joined hands with @norwayinindia for a symposium on women & agriculture. I met Champaben & Kashiben from Surat, who shared how rural women farmers are at the frontline of #climatechange impact, ensuring food security. Read: https://t.co/KsroUjqKBp
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Thank you @UNWFP_India for the good initiative. We are very excited about this partnership focusing on women farmers.
Norway prioritises working towards the welfare of farmers in increasingly challenging global times with @WFP also at a global level.
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A symposium focusing on women’s challenges and contributions to India’s agrarian economy, especially from #climateresilience perspective, was kicked off today by @UNWFP_India and @norwayinindia to contribute to the government of India’s ongoing efforts to #empower#women farmers.
It has been great to see the work of @UNFPAIndia@UNICEFIndia@UNDP_India@unwomenindia@UNEP
Proud to be a part of new project with @UNWFP_India to support work on food security through supporting women in climate adaptation in small-scale agriculture in the state of Assam.
“विश्व खाद्य कार्यक्रम और हरियाणा सरकार के बीच ���ाझेदारी, राज्य में शून्य भूख के सतत विकास लक्ष्य 2 को प्राप्त करने की दिशा में सरकार की प्रतिबद्धता में योगदान देगी। चल रहे कार्यक्रम को मजबूत करने और उन्हें कुशल और प्रभावी बनाने के प्रयासों के लिए कई गतिविधियों की योजना बनाई गई है।” @sumitamisra
@Elisabeth_WFP
@ShariquaY
@AraSriv
@UNWFP_India
Great discussion with Mr Malik @RD_Haryana on expanding livelihood options for women, breaking barriers to women’s empowerment and the new partnership between WFP and @haryanasrlm - looking forward to visiting women self help groups in the aspirational district soon.