04 Sep 2022 Dr Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Senior Forestry Officer and Lead Technical Officer (LTO), Mr. Pierre Ferrand, Agriculture Officer (Agroecology) and alternate LTO for Green-Ag project from FAO RAP along with Mr R.B. Sinha, National Project Director and Dr Divya Shah, NRM & Biodiversity Specialist, NPMU visited Odisha from 4th – 8th September 2022. During the visit, the FAO team met various officials at state and district level and discussed various issues pertaining to the project. The officers with whom discussion held included Dr. Arabinda Kumar Padhee, IAS, Principal Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment; Mr. Hemant Kumar Panda, Director, Soil Conservation and Watershed Development; Mr. Prasant Kumar Patnaik, Director, IMAGE, Mr. Vineet Bhardwaj, IAS, Collector and District Magistrate-cum-Chairman, TSG, Mayurbhanj, Mr. T Ashok Kumar, IFS, Field Director, Similipal Tiger Reserve, and Mr. B.S. Kalo, Project Director Watersheds cum district project nodal officer, Green- Ag, Project, Mayurbhanj. The FAO team also held discussion with the GLIU and the SPMU teams. The team visited four villages, Kadamsule (Kaptipada block), Nabara (Udala block), Sansule and Godipokhari, and (Shamakhunta block) in the landscape to understand the landscapes, review the project implementation progress including FPIC and interact with the communities to understand the problems being faced by them, their concerns and also the expectation of communities from the project.