" Advancing Knowledge
For Human Security
And Development"



Message from Coordinator

The United Nations University (UNU), with headquarters at Tokyo, is funded by many member nations of the UNO, with the largest share being held by Japan. The university opened in 1974 and is engaged in 3 major programmes: World Hunger Programme, Human and Social Development, and Natural Resources.  It has 7 Associated Institutions worldwide, CFTRI being one among them, under the World Hunger Programme. The programmes of UNU are specially designed to meet the food technology needs of developing countries through training of personnel at middle and management levels