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He stressed the significance of engaging with In Odisha, 10 state government departments
the government in any major strategic initiative have come together, including Women and
because government is permanent, plays a big Child Development Department, Health, Rural
role in facilitating and has the capacity to scale Development and Agriculture to develop a
and reach large numbers. Government helps in common results framework- a single Odisha
making the infrastructure mainstreamed and Nutrition Action Plan.
institutionalized.
In Andhra Pradesh, 1.6 lakh farmers have
Drawing from his experience of having worked adopted natural farming within 2 years of the
with different NGOs and governments across the commencement of the programme. There has
country, he shared that strategic initiatives bring been improvement in farm ecology and they are
in mutual learning and scalable pathways for producing higher quality healthy food.
fostering long term systematic change through
continuous interventions.