Videos
CODEX: Spices & trade, India
14/08/2025
FAO in India worked with the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) to train smallholder spice producers in India on good practices in spices production and marketing. The smallholders were trained on Codex standards to help them produce spices to an acceptable standard of safety and quality for marketing internationally. This has boosted incomes and improved livelihoods.
Investing in Jharkhand’s women
25/06/2025
This film showcases how the Jharkhand Opportunities for Harnessing Rural Growth (JOHAR) programme, in Jharkhand, eastern India, is helping 200 000 rural households – particularly women from Scheduled Tribes – improve their livelihoods and incomes through high-value agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, irrigation and non-timber forest products
FAO 80 Anniversary Video
18/04/2025
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations envisions a world where everyone has access to enough high-quality food to lead active healthy lives. Since 1945 FAO has strived to increase food security, promote sustainable agriculture and innovation, build resilience and empower people for a better life and future.
OCOP India – revitalizing “nutri-cereal” millets value chain for health and economic benefits
17/08/2023
One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) is FAO’s corporate flagship initiative aiming to transform national agrifood systems towards more resilience, sustainability, inclusiveness and efficiency, through developing the value chains of special agricultural products (SAPs), which boast unique qualities
Keeping milk safe in India
02/06/2023
Indian dairy farmer Divyaben Mehulbhai Bharwad explains what happens every day to ensure the milk her family produces is safe.
Farmer Climate School – Cultivating climate resilience
05/12/2018
Government of India and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations with support of the Global Environment Facility to develop and implement a strategic pilot project on climate change adaptation in seven drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh & Telangana.
Leveraging ICT platform for nutrition communication: pilot with PVTGs in India
19/11/2018
The video showcases the journey of an innovative pilot project undertaken in Deogarh district of Odisha in India. The pilot leveraged the ICT platform (Digital Green model) to communicate nutrition-sensitive messages including nutrition sensitive agricultural practices with the particularly vulnerable tribal women.
Codex in India: Standard for Quick Frozen Shrimp
15/11/2018
From hatchery to export, Codex Standards, Guidelines and Codes of Practice are a critical part of the multi-billion dollar Indian shrimp industry ensuring safety and quality along the food system.
Using underutilized foods to improve livelihoods and nutrition in India
19/01/2018
In Asia and the Pacific, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is helping its member countries improve nutrition from the ground up. In India, working with its partners at ICRISAT, underutilized but highly nutritious foods are being grown once again. Livelihoods of farmers and their families are improving as a result and for many this resurgence is improving nutrition.
Recognition of land rights of indigenous peoples in India. An interview with Ramesh Sharma.
11/07/2017
Supporting the recognition of land rights of indigenous peoples and local communities in India. An interview with Ramesh Sharma. FAO and the organization Ekta Parishad are working together to increase the recognition of land rights of indigenous peoples and local communities in India. In this interview, Ramesh Sharma gives us more details about FAO’s joint work with Ekta Parishad.
ILDC 2017 - Shyam Khadka (FAO)
07/04/2017
Interview with Mr. Shyam Khadka (FAO) at the India Land and Development Conference (ILDC) in 5-6 April 2017 in New Delhi, India. Transcript
Interview with Harsh Mander about the State's obligations on the right to adequate food in India
15/12/2015
Interview with Mr Harsh Mander (Director of the Centre for Equity Studies, New Delhi, India) providing an overview on the main issues debated during the development and passage of the India’s National Food Security Act (2013), focusing on the State's obligations on the right to adequate food.
What are pulses and why are they important crops for food security
11/11/2015
The International year of Pulses 2016 (IYP) aims to heighten public awareness of the nutritional benefits of pulses as part of sustainable food production aimed towards food security and nutrition.
Costs and benefits of the Green India Mission for mitigation
15/09/2015
N H Ravindranath speaks at the Economics of Climate Change Mitigation Options in the Forest Sector international online conference. Organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in February 2015, the conference explored how a wide range of different interventions in the forest sector might help to mitigate climate change
BioVillage India (TeleFood 1998)
08/05/2013
Biovillage Project is run by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, a local non-governmental organization in Chennai, with funding and technical assistance from the Government of India and international agencies including FAO, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Agriculture Water Solutions in West Bengal, India
22/11/2012
In West Bengal, more than 4 millions rural household would benefit from investments in agriculture water management. The introduction of small rainwater harvesting reservoirs has resulted in benefits, including cultivation of fallow land, higher crop intensity due to cropping in the dry season, new crops, more livestock and aquaculture.