Work under this programme area focuses on leveraging of agriculture for nutrition and health through research, implementation and demonstration at the community level, and advocacy with different stakeholder groups. The LANSA research programme that ended in early 2019 received an A+ rating from the funding agency UKAid. Three more KVKs were identified by the Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) for setting up demonstration of the Farming System for Nutrition (FSN) model. An MoU was signed with the Maharashtra Council of Agriculture Education Research (MCAER) to provide technical support for promotion of the FSN approach. In Koraput, 96 men and women selected from across 47 villages underwent training on the Community Hunger Fighter approach.
