Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA) of IIT-Bombay is spearheading a two-day workshop on "Agriculture and the Imperatives of Food and Nutrition Security" in assosciation with Asia-Pacific Assosciation of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
Following are the Proposed Focus areas for this workshop:-
•Availability, Accessibility, Utilisation and Stability of food
•Integration of Food-processing and logistics in controlling food-prices
•District (local government) level decentralised planning for nutrition security
•Regional and local food and nutrition security
•Linkages between Agriculture, Income, Livelihoods, and Malnutrition