Indian understudy from UAE wins worldwide short video challenge

Understudies from in excess of 19 nations and crosswise over five landmasses took an interest in the challenge. 

An Indian kid living in UAE, won the worldwide short video rivalry, 'My Food, Our Future', sorted out by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to check the World Food Day on October 16. 

13-year-old Johan Sanju Sebastian, as of now concentrating in evaluation 8 at the Abu Dhabi Indian School, was the sprinter up in the adolescent class (10-17 years) of the yearly short video challenge, winning the $250 prize. 

Sebastian, initially hailing from Kasaragod in south Indian satisfy of Kerala, presented a two-minute video, titled, 'Cultivating for Our Future,' featuring focal points of aquaponics cultivating framework and how this framework could add to a practical and nourishment secure future. 

Headquartered in Washington, IFPRI sorted out its first yearly short video challenge, 'My Food, Our Future', to bring issues to light and urge youth to engage in discovering answers for nourishment security challenges in their neighborhood, network, and nation. 

The current year's subject for the challenge urged members to offer thoughts and answers for assistance guarantee the world approaches solid, assorted, and moderate eating regimens. 

"The young are a ground-breaking asset for financial advancement and social advancement. Youngsters hold gigantic vitality and innovativeness to add to agribusiness, yet additionally in tending to the significant difficulties confronting mankind - yearning, destitution, and environmental change," said IFPRI Director General, Shenggen Fan. 

"It is basic for the present age to help evacuate the boundaries youth face so as to arrive at the maximum capacity of our childhood and our reality. The video challenge empowers us to tune in to and enhance the voices of youth over the globe," included Fan. 

Sebastian found out about the challenge from his uncle in India. "I discovered this as a chance to find out more and offer information of future cultivating frameworks which I got the hang of during a visit to our family ranch in Kerala," said Sebastian. 

Prior, in July 2019, while on a school get-away in Kasaragod, he had a chance to take in increasingly about aquaponics from his granddad at their family ranch and witness the benefits of water sparing and the characteristic cycle of delivering crisp and natural organic products, vegetables and fish. 

"I had an inclination that aquaponics could be an answer for future smaller scale cultivating, and it should be advanced broadly in India and over the reality where there is a lack of water," said Sebastian. 

For future however, Sebastian has his eyes set on turning into a natural specialist. He is quick to engage with nature, secure condition and embrace natural cultivating. 

Different champs in this class incorporate Australia's Hannah Yin and Hiya Shah, who won the top prize of $500; and Russia's Maria Ivanova Maria Konstantinova, who won the $250 prize. 

In the second youth class (18-25 years), Mexico's Frida Garza Mendiolea and her group won the top prize of $500, while Russia's Nadya Putyakova and Nepal's Grace Tiwari stowed the second spot with $250 prize each. 

Understudies from in excess of 19 nations and crosswise over five mainlands took an interest in the short video challenge.