Event Brief

Despite being a relatively new emergence, ‘food systems’ has increasingly become a topic of focus given the current geo-political conflicts preceded by COVID-19, both of which severely disrupted the global food supply chains. It is therefore important to elevate the current public communication, including journalistic narrative, from being crisis-driven and reactive to being more analytical, inter-disciplinary, and solution-driven, to present a holistic view of the food systems to the public.

In this context, FOLU India has conceptualised National Young Media Fellowship (NYMF). This annual programme will focus on students from across India, beginning with Delhi-NCR in its initial year.

At the end of its five-month module, NYMF is expected to produce a group of well-informed, subject-sensitised young professionals capable of communicating on topics of food systems, and who are ready to enter mass communication industry at the national and sub-national level. The NYMF Programme holds the broader aim to help widen and sharpen the focus on food systems in order to improve information flow among the public, raise awareness among stakeholders, thereby prompting stronger policy action.

Read the NYMF background note here.