Consultations

The Sphere Project Consultation: Food Security and Nutrition Standards Development
December 16-17, 2002
New Delhi
Participants: 37 participants from Government, INGOs, UN Agencies, NGOs and grassroots organisations
Partners: Emergency Food Security Network (EFSN), TUFTS University and World Food Programme (WFP)

Silent Voices

1. "Building Capacity to better assess, and more importantly better evaluate food security standards is very important."

- P. U. Francis, CARITAS (India)

 

2. "Supply Chain Management is a new and effective way of integrating food aid with food security in India."

- N. M. Prushty, CARE (India)

 

3. "Standards must be used and it is our job to use them and make them usable."

- Mihir R. Bhatt, DMI (India)

 

4. "It is importand for the civil society to be involved in developing standards, against just following what someone has suggested."

- Pedro Medrano, UNWFP (India)

 

Basic Information Sheet

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