Isha Foundation, WFP join hands for long-term food security

NEW DELHI: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has joined hands with Isha Foundation of Sadhguru for creating awareness and outreach on sustainable food and nutritional security in India.
Both the organisations had on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding that will leverage the technical and global expertise of WFP on addressing hunger and Isha Outreach's large public engagement discourses led by spiritual guru and founder of the Foundation, Sadhguru.
"Every responsible scientist in the world and the UN agencies are saying we have 80-100 harvests left, that means approximately 45-50 years of agricultural soil left on the planet. By 2045, we will be producing 40% less food than what we are producing right now, and our population will be 9.3 billion people," said Sadhguru while emphasising on sustainability in agriculture.
"The food shortages that could manifest in the next 25 years are unimaginable. Civil wars will unfold across the world once there is food shortage. This is not the world we want to leave behind for our children," said Sadhguru, who was in Delhi during February 19-21. On the occasion of signing the MoU, he held a detailed conversation with the WFP's representatives and other stakeholders on 'One People. One Planet. One Solution - Need of the Hour'.
During his visit to the capital, he also met agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Niti Aayog member Ramesh Chand over the issue of sustainable agriculture practices and saving the soil. The MoU on sustainable food and nutritional security in India was signed between WFP representative and country director Bishow Parajuli and director Isha Outreach, Moumita Sen Sarma.