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Food Vision 2050 Prize for Naandi Foundation
Why is it in news?
- The Rockefeller Foundation has selected Naandi Foundation, as one of the ‘Top 10 Visionaries’ in the world for the Food Vision 2050 Prize, announced in New York.
- The recognition fetches Naandi a prize money of $200,000.
- Naandi foundation is Hyderabad-based non-profit body.
Details:
- The award recognised the application of the Arakunomics model in regions of Araku, Wardha and New Delhi, leading to the Food Vision 2050 that follows an “ABCDEFGH” framework.
- ABCDEFGH centring on: Agriculture, Biology, Compost, Decentralised decision-making, Entrepreneurs, Families, Global Markets, and ‘Headstands’.
Vision of Arakunomics:
- Naandi’s vision titled Arakunomics was based on work with tribal farmers in Araku for nearly 20 years.
- It is a new integrated economic model that ensures profits for farmers, quality for consumers through regenerative agriculture.
- The model is a tribute to the tribal farmers of Araku region for the world-class coffee produced and launched in Paris in 2017.
- They also did a high carbon landscape transformationin over 955 villages, thereby planting 25 million trees.