Intern - Food Loss, Wri India
3 months ago
**Intern - Food Loss, WRI India**:
**Who we are and what we do**:
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 150 researchers are working with WRI India in our offices in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.
**Program Overview for Food, Land and Water**:
WRI India’s Food, Land and Water program aims to inform India’s transition towards sustainable and resilient food and land use systems focusing on developing interdisciplinary nature-based solutions like landscape restoration, sustainable agriculture to mitigate climate impacts, enhance jobs and livelihoods and improve nutritional security. To catalyze systems change with a focus on circular food systems in India, we also focus on developing equitable strategies to reduce food loss and food waste and mitigate climate impacts.
With broader systems change and food systems perspective, we work with diverse stakeholders like governments, businesses, civil society partners and farmer producer organizations to inform and develop land use strategies based on robust evidence and analysis to build the resilience of local communities to mitigate climate impacts, bridge capacity gaps, monitor progress, and inform a pathway to building a restoration economy for people, nature, and climate.
**How your day will unfold**:
WRI India is working on reducing food loss and food waste in India through research and building a coalition of stakeholders. We are looking for an exceptional intern to support our research in reducing food losses in India.
The key responsibilities include - Secondary Research and Documentation_
- Conduct research and collaborate with team members to support in secondary research on reducing food losses.
- Support in identifying relevant stakeholders, ongoing initiatives on reducing food losses and conducting stakeholder consultations.
- Design a framework and build a database through literature review on food loss measurement. Output - excel database
**Skills and Qualifications**:
- Any Masters, preferably Food, Environment, Economics, or Rural Development (pursuing also)
- Understanding of agriculture and scale of food losses in India
- Proficiency in MS Office - Word, Excel & PowerPoint
- Ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner
- Self-starter who can work independently
- Experience in preparing reports and presenting findings.
- Excellent recordkeeping and communication skills.
- Good report writing skills.
**Stipend**:
**Location**: Delhi/remote
**Duration**: 2 Months
**List of Documents to be attached**:
- _ Curriculum vitae of no more than 2 A4-sized pages detailing academic and relevant experience._
- _ A sample of research-based writing that demonstrates analytical capabilities. This could be a paper or a dissertation chapter._
- _ Names and contact details of two referees who can attest to the capabilities of the applicant._
- Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for interview purposes._
- WRI India values and promotes diversity, equity and inclusion across all areas of our work and workforce. Integrating these values into our actions fosters a progressive and collaborative culture and can also enhance our impact. It is our responsibility to create a welcoming working environment for people of diverse cultures, backgrounds and experience to learn together. We are responsible for fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where questions, concerns and information about diversity, equity and inclusion are part of our ongoing dialogue and development._
**_ Learn more about WRI India’s commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). _**
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