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Global
Conference on
Meeting Nutritional Challenges with Sustainability and Equity
Dates: 2-3 August, 2009
Venue: India International Centre (Annexe), New Delhi, India
Organized
by: International Baby Food Action Network (Asia), Navdanya,
Initiative for Health, Equity and Society/Third World Network, Breastfeeding
Promotion Network of India,
In Partnership with: Child in Need Institute, Diverse
Women for Diversity, Baby Milk Action-UK, Foodfirst Information
and Action (FIAN)-India, International Commission on the Future
of Food
Supported by: Planning Commission of India, Plan India,
ActionAid
PEOPLE'S CHARTER
FOR FOOD AND
NUTRITION SECURITY
Background
Programme

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Day
One - 2nd August 2009
Inaugural Session
Right
to Food - An Inalienable Human Right
-- Adv. Anand Grover
Session
1 - Keynote Speakers
Understanding
Hunger Hunger
and Malnutrition --Dr. Marion Nestle
What
Lies behind the Food Crisis in India and the Global South?
-- Prof. Utsa Patnaik
Session
2: Food Rights for Health
Realising
the Human Right to Food with Equity --Shri Harsh Mander
Swaraj as the Foundation
for Community-based Nutrition Security --Prof. George
Kent
Session
3: Roots of Malnutrition -
Destruction
of sustainable food production and livelihoods --Dr.
Vandana Shiva
Roots of tribal malnutrition WTO and the threat to food
production -- Dr. Binayak Sen
Session
4:Manufacturing
Malnutrition
Nutrition
for women and children - what does it mean? -- Dr.
Mira Shiva
Nutrition and
the 0-6 months infants -- Prof. Komal Prasad Kushwaha
Complementary
feeding -- Prof. M.M.A Faridi
Session
5:The
Hunger Bazaar: chemicalising food to create markets
Nutritionism
-The slippery slope to corporatisation of food Corporate
takeover of infant feeding-- Dr. Veena Shatrughna
When
Breasts are Bad for Business - Using trust to build
the baby food market -- Ms. Patti Rundall
Nutritionism - the slippery slope to corporatisation of
food Corporate takeover of infant feeding
Using
micronutrient malnutrition to take over food - the example of Shakti
Doi in Bangladesh --Dr. Khurshid Talukder
The
politics of ready-to-use therapeutic foods -- Dr. Vandana
Prasad
Session
6 :Paradigms
that Pamper Profit-making
Public
Private Partnerships - will they feed the hungry? --
Dr.Arun Gupta
Science in service
of the market – health and nutrition issues --Dr.
JP Dadhich
Science in service of the market - Genetic Engineering
--Dr. Vandana Shiva
Day
Two – 3rd August 2009
Session
1 - Defending the Right to Food
The
Right to Food in Supreme Court and the legislature
The
Infant Milk Substitutes Act - an Act that needs to be strengthened
-- Dr.Arun Gupta
Using
the judicial system to protect food - The case against Micronutrient
Fortification of flour in Gujarat High Court -- Ms.
Sejal Dand
Session
2 - Addressing Malnutrition through Practice
The
Lalitpur experience -- Prof. Komal Prasad Kushwaha
Mobile
Creches --Ms. Devika Singh
Child in Need
Institute -- Dr. Nimai Chand De
Christian
Medical College, Vellore. --Prof. Anuradha
Bose
Session
3 - Addressing Hunger and Malnutrition through Policy
ADDRESSING
MALNUTRITION THROUGH POLICY- Integrated Child Development Scheme
and Mid-day Meal Scheme in India -- Ms. Dipa Sinha
Protecting
access to food -Public Distribution System and National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme in India -- Mr.Biraj Patnaik
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