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National Conclave on Food: What’s on our plate?

Date: March 15, 2019

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) organised a day-long national conclave on food. The conclave focused on two broad themes: sustainable food production and regulated food promotion. Under these, it touched upon topics ranging from pesticide management, organic farming and use of antibiotics in food to labelling, claims and advertisements of ultra-processed packaged foods (junk foods).

The deliberations also covered food-related policies in view of the crisis of antimicrobial resistance and non-communicable diseases.

For more information, contact: Sukanya Nair of The CSE Media Resource Centre, sukanya.nair@cseindia.org / 8816818864.

 

 

Tags: Food Safety, Diseases, Antibiotics,

AGENDA
SPEAKER PROFILES
PRESS RELEASE
New Delhi, March 15, 2019:
India needs policies to regulate ‘bad food’ and produce food sustainably, say experts at National Conclave on Food
PRESENTATIONS
National Conclave on Food - Setting the Context.

Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General
CSE
Impact of ban on Class I pesticides in Sri Lanka

Ayanthi Karunarathne, Public Health and Clinical Research Fellow, Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention, University of Edinburgh
Pesticides Management in India

Sonam Taneja, Programme Manager, Food Safety and Toxins, CSE
Draft `Pesticides Management Bill, 2017': Expectations of state governments

Dr. B. S. Sidhu, Commissioner Agriculture, Punjab
Burden of AMR in India

Sunil Gupta, Additional Director, National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi
Animal and environmental aspects of AMR

Dr Rajeshwari Sinha, Deputy Programme Manager, Food Safety and Toxins, CSE
Kerala's plans to contain AMR from animals

Dr. Robin J. Paul, Quality Manager- State Laboratory for Livestock, Marine and Agri Products, Department of Animal Husbandry, Kerala
Developing MP's state action plan on AMR: Learnings and challenges

Dr. Pankaj Shukla, State Nodal officer Quality Assurance, NHM Madhya Pradesh
Draft food labelling regulations: Gaps and areas of improvement

Amit Khurana, Programme Director, Food Safety and Toxins, CSE
Why `organic farming' in India is still not a mass movement?

Vineet Kumar, Programme Officer, Food Safety and Toxins, CSE
Andhra Pradesh Zero Budget Natural Farming

T. Vijay Kumar, Advisor, (Agriculture and Coop), and, Vice Chairman, Rythu sadhikara samstha Govt of A.P
Civil society based quality assurance of organic food

Kapil Shah, Director, Jatan Trust, Gujarat
Food claims: A strategy to promote processed food consumption

Shweta Khandelwal, Head, Nutrition Research at the Public Health Foundation of India
Food advertising: A hidden cause of obesity

Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Professor and Associate Dean, Department of Marketing, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Impact of food advertisements on children

Uday K Sinha, Head and Additional Professor, Department of Psychology, Institute of Human Behaviour & Allied Sciences, Delhi
HFSS food advertisements: Need for regulations

Sonal Dhingra, Deputy Programme Manager, Food Safety and Toxins, CSE
Food advertisements targeted at children: Role of advertising agencies

Sashwati Banerjee, Senior Advisor, Sesame Workshop India
Ultra-processed foods and hypertension among school children

Rajiv Narang, Professor, Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi
School Canteen Policy: Where do we stand?

Sonam Taneja, Programme Manager, Food Safety and Toxins, CSE
NCPCR's initiatives on limiting HFSS foods in schools: Implementation status in states

Priyank Kanoongo, Chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), Delhi
The Making of Kerala Antimicrobial Resistance Strategic Action Plan-[KARSAP]

Rajeev Sadanandan, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala
Addressing Antibiotic misuse in food and Antimicrobial Resistance

Rama Sankar Naik, I.A.S. (Re), E.O. Commissioner of Fisheries, A.P.
NEWS CLIPPINGS
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DOWN TO EARTH
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FOOD TALK
REPORTS


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LETTER
CSE recommendations on Draft Pesticides Management Bill, 2018