Cabinet approves MOU between National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj and University of Reading, UK
The Union
Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was apprised of a Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) signed between National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati
Raj (NIRDPR) and University of Reading (UoR), United Kingdom (UK) for
collaboration in the field of agriculture and rural development in developing
countries. The MoU was signed in March, 2022.
Impact:
This
MoU will help NIRDPR faculty in acquiring and widening their knowledge, and
develop an international professional network in agriculture, nutrition and
rural development.
Both the institutes together can bring a considerable amount of research
expertise in agricultural economics, rural development, livelihoods and
nutrition studies that is required for the emerging inter-disciplinary area of
research and capacity building.
Background:
NIRDPR
has been involved with University of Reading in various research activities in
the field of rural development like improvement of nutrition assessment by
measuring energy expenditure, use of wearable accelerometric and sensor based
devices in agricultural livelihoods research in low and middle income countries,
and also in the area of Women and Child Development.