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Prelims 2024 · Current Affairs · Question 66

Which one of the following is the correct description of "100 Million Farmers"?

  1. It is a platform for accelerating the transition towards food and water systems that are net-zero (carbon), nature-positive and that aims to increase farmer resilience.
  2. It is an international alliance and a network of individuals and farming organisations interested in supporting and strengthening the development of the organic animal husbandry.
  3. It is a digital platform fully integrated with service providers and built on blockchain that lets buyers, sellers and third parties trade fertilizers quickly and securely.
  4. It is a platform with the mission of encouraging the farmers to form Farmer Product Organisations or Agribusiness Consortiums, thus facilitating the access to global open markets to sell their products.

Answer

It is a platform for accelerating the transition towards food and water systems that are net-zero (carbon), nature-positive and that aims to increase farmer resilience.

  • (a) Correct. 100 Million Farmers is a World Economic Forum platform to accelerate transition to net-zero, nature-positive food and water systems and improve farmer resilience.
  • (b) Incorrect. This describes an international network related to organic animal husbandry, not 100 Million Farmers.
  • (c) Incorrect. This refers to a blockchain-based fertilizer trading platform, unrelated to 100 Million Farmers.
  • (d) Incorrect. This describes a platform promoting FPOs/agribusiness consortiums and market access, not the WEF-led 100 Million Farmers initiative.
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