Blog Peeling away malnutrition and enhancing climate resilience through fruit cultivation

With its hosting in the New Delhi Office, the Alliance is responsible for executing its activities in collaboration with national research and development organizations and the private sector CFI through a transdisciplinary, participatory, and action-oriented approach to enhance food systems and landscapes. 

Dr. Stephan Weise, Managing Director for Asia, described CFI as a significant milestone in advancing fruit tree cultivation as a nature-positive solution. He also emphasized the Alliance's commitment to ensuring the successful implementation of this initiative based on its extensive experience in conserving and utilizing fruit tree diversity across various regions. 

By acting as research catalyst around the potential cultivation and consumption of nutritious fruit tree biodiversity, CFI seeks to integrate fruit trees as a nature-positive solution at the heart of government policy, civil society, science (academia) initiatives, and primary agricultural cultivation (farmers) in India. This will ultimately contribute to reaching CFI’s core mission of increasing access to, and consumption of, a broad fruit tree diversity particularly among low-income families. 

Achieving the CFI’s targets underpin long-term positive change in India’s food security, nutrition status, and overall health while mitigating climate change and restoring fruit-tree biodiversity for local and global benefits.