Objectives

The Food Systems Dialogue will be organized with the following objectives:

1. Convene diverse groups including farmers, policymakers, food producers, consumers, and industry representatives to engage in discussions aimed at addressing challenges in the production, marketing, and consumption of minor millets, with a focus on sustainability. The objective is to collaboratively determine strategies to advance this movement with an inclusive
2. Orient farmers to emphasize the significance of PGS certification and its Additionally, formulate strategies to engage with the government, promoting the adoption of PGS to ensure sustainable agriculture practices and quality produce.

Key aspects for discussions

1.     Access to Safe food and nutritious food – Challenges and opportunities

2. Scaling up production of minor millets in the State
   • Tactics and technology to increase production of minor
   • Existing and improved agro-practices for minor

3.     Streamlining approaches for processing minor millets by community-led approaches.

• Existing system/procedures of processing of different minor
• Applicability for processing through community-owned approaches
• Research and innovation on small scale machinery

4.     Approaches to enhance consumption of minor millets

• Existing challenges for increasing consumption of minor
• Innovative and cost-effective measures/approaches to enhance acceptability and consumption/utilization of minor millets.
• Inclusion of millets in safety net schemes- PDS, ICDS, Mid-day meal

5.     Strengthening local markets and small enterprises in tribal areas for promotion of minor millets.

• Challenges for promoting minor millets
• Cost effective, profitable measures through MSME, SHGs, Youths
• Enhancing Market Reach through Integrated Value Chains”
• Policies to strengthen market system

6. PGS Certification: Ensuring Sustainable Agriculture and Quality Produce (Challenges, Importance & Opportunity)

Expected outcome

• Recommendations received from the FSD will be help support in formulating a strategy to advocate promotion of minor millets and PGS certification in the
• A community led action plan will be prepared for promoting minor millets in the
• Policy-level engagement, resulting in the creation of supportive regulations addressing various challenges linked with production, processing and marketing of minor millets.