In light of the alarming rise in hunger and malnutrition around the world and especially in India on account of the Covid 19 pandemic, the Bahá’í Chair for Studies in Development organiized a webinar titled ‘Food and Nutrition Security in India: Building Back Better from the Covid-19 Pandemic’. This webinar seeks to gain deeper insights into the complex and multidimensional challenges related to the availability, access and absorption of food in India, the questions of food diversity and nutritional value and to the profound changes at the level of development thought, policies and action that will be needed to address this most fundamental of human needs.
About the speakers:
The speakers for the webinar include Rohini Mukherjee, Chief Policy Officer, Naandi Foundation; Dr. Vandana Prasad, Technical Advisor, Public Health Resource Network; Dr. Richa Kumar, Associate Professor of Sociology and Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and Dr. Dipa Sinha, Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi.
