To help food businesses develop nutritious food products and make them commercially viable, the project developed the Food Convergent Innovation Accelerator, a virtual platform comprising global and Indian partners spanning societal and industrial sectors. Collaborative leadership was fostered between various partners, including the McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE, Montreal, Canada) and the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM) – a public research university (Sonipat district of Haryana, India). The programme initially focused on pulse foods (and later, millets) as naturally nutritious agricultural commodities that promise high human and economic development impact in India
