Emerging Food System in South Asia: Policy Challenges and Opportunities

Session 1: Inaugural Session and presentations on opportunities to make food systems more nutritious and healthy

• Chair: Ramesh Chand, NITI Aayog
• Co-chair: Margaret Catley-Carlson, IFPRI Board

Welcome

• Shenggen Fan, IFPRI Director General

Remarks

• Mari Pangestu, IFPRI Board Chair

Remarks

• Ramesh Chand, Member, NITI Aayog

Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition: Lessons from Bangladesh

• Akhter Ahmed, Senior Research Fellow, Country Representative, IFPRI Bangladesh

Using Data and Empirical Evidence to Improve India’s Nutritional Programs

• Purnima Menon, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI 

Connections and Disconnections between Agriculture, Nutrition and Health in India

• Devesh Roy, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI 

Evidence on Strategies to Stabilize Pulse Production and Consumption and Prices in India

• Avinash Kishore, Research Fellow, IFPRI 

Discussants

• Bhushana Karandikar, Gokhale University 

Open Discussion 

• Chair: Ramesh Chand, NITI Aayog 
• Co-chair: Margaret Catley-Carlson, IFPRI Board 

Session 2: Panel discussion on opportunities to make food systems more efficient and resilient 

• Moderator: Avinash Kishore, Research Fellow, IFPRI 

Panelists:

• J.V. Meenakshi, Delhi School of Economics 
• K.D. Renuka Silva, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka
•  Tarun Vij, GAIN India
• Parminder Virk, HarvestPlus 
• Kuhu Chatterjee, ACIAR 

Open Discussion 

Remarks by Chair

Closing Session

Perspectives

• Mahendra Dev, IFPRI Board
• Simon Maxwell, IFPRI Board 
• Marcos Jank, IFPRI Board

Closing Remarks

• Mari Pangestu, IFPRI Board Chair 

Vote of Thanks

• Pramod Kumar Joshi, Director for South Asia, IFPRI