Internship Food Loss

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.   

• 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.

Source: https://jobs.jobvite.com/wri/job/oCKmufwW