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Towards Hunger Free India

 

Programme of the consultation on 

' Towards Hunger Free India '

 

24 - 26 April 2001, Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, India

 

24th April 2001

Inaugural session of the consultation "Towards Hunger Free India"

 

Welcome and Introduction to the atlas "Food Insecurity Atlas of Rural India"

Prof. M.S. Swaminathan

Chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation

Special address

Mr. K.C. Pant

Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission

Address to the audience

Mr. Namanga A. Ngongi

Deputy Executive Director, World Food Programme

Release of the book "Enabling Development: Food Assistance in South Asia" and the atlas "Food Insecurity Atlas of Rural India"

Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The Honourable Prime Minister of India

Vote of Thanks

Dr. N.C. Saxena

Secretary, Planning Commission

 

 

25th - 26th April 2001

Consultation on "Towards Hunger Free India"

 

Opening

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Dr. N.C.Saxena, Secretary, Planning Commission

Food Insecurity in Rural India – Atlas and Analysis (Introduction and discussion)

Dr. Swarna Vepa and Mr. Gerald Daly

Technical Session I

Food availability and vulnerability to natural disasters

Mrs. Tamarajakshi

Demand for foodgrains in 2020

Dr. G.S. Bhalla

Demand need and supply of food by the year 2020

Dr. Anjani Kumar and Dr. Pratap Singh Birthal

Growth of livestock sector in India: implications for food and nutrition security

Dr. V.M. Rao

Agricultural price policy and food security: the need for a new paradigm

Ms. Shikha Jha

Domestic trade restrictions and food security

Dr. V. Ratna Reddy

State intervention in Grain Markets: implications of liberalisation for food security in India

Prof. Vinod K. Sharma

Food availability and vulnerability to natural disasters

Dr. Amita Shah

Drought proofing: exploring wider options

Prof. Indira Hirway

Food security in disaster management

Technical Session II

Sustainable livelihood & economic access to food

Prof. Amitabh Kundu

Nutritional deficiency, poverty and unemployment: trends and interrelations and their implications for food security in India

Mrs. Neera Ramachandran

Sustainable livelihood and economic access to food

Ms. Saraswati Raju

Sustainable livelihoods and economic access to food: a theme paper

Prof. Kailash Sarap

Food insecurity, coping strategy and livelihood pattern among households in tribal area: Orissa

Mr. Ratnakar Gedam

India's food security and biotechnology: issues and options

Mr. B. Radhakrishnan

Sustainable livelihood and household food and nutritional security – UNDP approach

Technical Session III

Food absorption and utilization

Dr. C. Gopalan

Approaches to eliminate malnutrition

Mr. A.K. Shiva Kumar

Food security and child rights: two priorities

Ms. Piyush Antony

Of children and food : leads and lags

Ms. Meera Chatterjee

Improving the effectiveness of ICDS to fight malnutrition

Ms. Patrice L. Engle and Dr. Abdullah Dustagheer

Care for development: contributions towards a hunger-free India

Technical Session IV

Policy response to food insecurity

Mr. Wolfgang Herbinger

Strengthening India’s food assistance programmes

Mr. S.S. Meenakshisundaram

Public Distribution System: safety system net for the poor

Dr. Jose Mooij

Targeted food distribution in two Indian States: performance, problems and an argument for a more localised approach

Dr. A.K. Karan

Food security and Public Distribution System in Bihar

Dr. Pradeep Bhargava

Food security and Public Distribution System in Rajasthan

Prof. Ravi Srivastava

Food security and the Public Distribution System in rural Uttar Pradesh

Mr. Wasim Akhtar

Role of food in rural development

Ms. Ute Meir

Improving school feeding in India

Prof. Biplab Dasgupta (presented by Mr. M.S. Sivasubramaniam)

Food security and globalisation

Dr. D. Narasimha Reddy

WTO and food security: issues in the context of small farmer economies like India

Dr. V.K. Mehta

Implications of WTO on food security

Technical Session V

Agenda 2007 - discussion of the draft ten-point action plan

Closing Session

Synthesis and next steps

Prof. M.S. Swaminathan

Vote of Thanks

Mr. Pedro Medrano

 

 

 

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