symposium participants

  • THE PROBLEM
    Posed by Vani Sethi, Nutrition Specialist in Unicef country office, Delhi

  • CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD
    N.C. Saxena, IAS; former Secretary, Planning Commission, GoI; and ex-Member, National Advisory Council, Delhi

  • HEIGHT OF THE PROBLEM
    Diane Coffey, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics; Executive Director, Research Institute for Compassionate Economics; and Dean Spears, Economics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

  • NUTRITION, BIODIVERSITY AND TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE
    Carolyn Stephens, Professor of Ecology and Global Health, UCL Institute of Health Equity, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina

  • WOMEN AND NUTRITION SECURITY
    Govind Kelkar, Coordinator, IFAD-UNIFEM Gender Mainstreaming Programme in Asia, Delhi

  • ENSURING A CIVIL LIFE
    Yogesh Jain, Anju Kataria, Raman Kataria, Rachna Jain and Ravindra Kurbude, Jan Swasthya Sahyog, Ganiyari, Bilaspur

 

 

 

 

 

#661
August 2014

THE MALNOURISHED TRIBAL
a symposium on the continuing burden of hunger
and illness in our tribal communities



cover design by www.designosis.in

 

 

  • CREATING THE CONNECT
    Rama Narayanan, Ford Foundation Chair for Women and Food Security, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai

  • MIND THE GAP 
    Biraj Swain, Co-director Global Call to Action Against Poverty, Political Economy and Governance; researcher and adjunct faculty, Pondicherry University and SLU, Uppsala; and Vani Sethi, Nutrition Specialist in Unicef country office, Delhi

  • UNEQUAL DESTINIES 
    Harsh Mander, Special Commissioner, Supreme Court of India on the Right to Food; and Director, Centre for Equity Studies, Delhi

  • IN CONVERSATION 
    Virginius Xaxa, Deep Joshi, P. Sainath, M.S. Swaminathan, Sanji Toppo and Dildaar Hussain interviewed by Mohuya Chaudhuri, Journalist, writer and researcher, Delhi

  • BOOKS
    Reviewed by Mohuya Chaudhuri and Surinder S. Jodhka

  • FURTHER READING
    A select and relevant bibliography 

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