FACE: Food and Agriculture Centre of Excellence

CII is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry-led and industry managed organization, playing a proactive role in India's development process. Founded in 1895, India's premier business association has over 7100 members, from the private as well as public sectors, including SMEs and MNCs, and an indirect membership of over 90,000 enterprises from around 257 national and regional sectoral industry bodies. CII has set up a Food and Agriculture Centre of Excellence (FACE) to contribute to the ongoing policy dialogue related to agriculture and food security concerns. The Centre, through its integrated approach of action oriented programs and capacity building, will address the issues from the farm gate to the consumer end.

FACE works closely with farmers, companies, developmental institutions, and the Government with the following objectives:

• Improving on and off-farm productivity through the introduction and dissemination of global best practices and technological innovation
• Improve global competitiveness of India’s agricultural sector by investing in capacity building initiatives and skill development for supply chain participants across the value chain
• Strengthening linkages across the agriculture and food value chain with an objective of reducing spoilage, increasing value and farmer incomes

The Centre endeavours to build capacity while leveraging technology and innovation to improve productivity and the environmental footprint of agriculture. It focuses on introducing efficiencies across the supply chain, right from the farm gate to the end consumer.

Guided by an Expert Group on Food Safety and Quality consisting of technical experts from the Indian Industry, CII commenced Food Safety and Quality (FSQ) –related services to the Indian Industry since 2003. It has been a preferred partner for information and knowledge dissemination, carrying out Awareness programs, trainings, Workshops, Consultancy, Gap assessments, skills and capacity building services, Seminars and Award Process, on various subjects relating to Food Safety, Quality Management, Manufacturing Excellence, Business Excellence, Total Productive Maintenance and Quality tools and techniques for providing a platform to share information and best practices.

GAIN: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition is an alliance driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. Created in 2002 at a special Session of UN General Assembly on Children, GAIN supports public-private partnerships to access to the missing nutrients in diets necessary for people, communities and economies to be stronger.

In less than a decade, GAIN has been able to scale its operations by working in partnership with governments and international agencies, and through projects in more than 30 countries, reaching an estimated 811 million people with nutritionally enhanced food products. About half of the beneficiaries are women and children. GAIN’s goal is to reach 1 billion people by 2015 with nutritious foods that have sustainable nutritional impact.

GAIN is a Swiss Foundation, headquartered in Geneva with a special International status granted by the Swiss government. It’s a worldwide presence includes country offices in Abuja, Accra, Addis, Ababa, Dhaka, Kabul, Jakarta, Nairobi and New Delhi. It also has representative offices in Amsterdam, London, Singapore and Washington D.C.

VOICE: Voluntary Organisation in Interest of Consumer Education

A consumer protection group set up by teachers and students of Delhi University in 1983. In 1986 it was registered as a Trust with the first donation by Late Justice V.M.Tarkunde a noted civil rights activist, Prof. P.K.Ghosh, former Vice – Chancellor of North Bengal University and Prof Sri Ram Khanna, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. In 1996 VOICE Society was incorporated under the Societies Act in view of the expanding scope of work.