India's Ramesh Chand nominated for UN's Food and Agriculture post

Chand has a PhD in agricultural economics from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute

The government has nominated NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand for the coveted post of the director general (DG) of the United Nation’s (UN’s) Food And Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

The post of DG FAO is considered one of the topmost designations because of the wide range of work that FAO does, including running food-aid programmes in more than 150 countries across the world.

According to the rotation policy, this time the head of FAO has to be someone from Asia or Europe. The current head of FAO is Brazilian José Graziano da Silva.

Silva, the architect of Brazil’s Zero Hunger (Fome