WRI India, an independent charity legally registered as the India Resources Trust, provides objective information and practical proposals to foster environmentally sound and socially equitable development. WRI India\'s mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth\'s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations. Through research, analysis, and recommendations, WRI India puts ideas into action to build transformative solutions to protect the earth, promote livelihoods, and enhance human well-being.
We are inspired by and associated with World Resources Institute (WRI), a global research organization. Currently over 250 researchers are working with WRI India in our offices at Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.
About your role:
The program focus is to develop a proof of concept at sub-national agroclimatic zone levels for effective implementation of the Doubling of Farmer Incomes report and the agriculture support programmes and schemes within the framework of the National Mission for Sustainable agriculture using the agroecological principles, in partnership with select state government and farmers. This program aims to test the proof of concept at landscape level in the identified state to identify the existing barriers, enabling conditions and policy and administrative gaps, etc. for implementing sustainable agriculture in India benefitting the farmers, ecology and dependent population. The project aims to establish a pilot model of developing an integrated and comprehensive state/agro-ecological zone level pathway of bringing synergy between the contemporary agriculture policies, strategies, recommendations and action plans and agro-ecological systems and practices in India and also carryout cost benefit analysis for repurposing the agriculture incentives for livelihood improvement of farmers using the available tools of economic evaluation of ecosystem services. The position holder must be willing to travel within the country, including in remote areas with difficult terrain when it\'s safe to do so. This work is led by WRI India as a project partner along with the FOLU Coalition India.
How your day will unfold: You will work closely with FOLU India. The position is most suited to an individual who has a specialized degree in agriculture and has a passion for working in the sustainability of the production systems in India.
Research and communication (50%)
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