ASET Colloquium

Is food a solution to hunger: Are we missing a secret ingredient?

by Ms. Prachi Katre (Independent Consultant)

Friday, January 12, 2018 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at AG-66.
Description
The rationale for investing in Nutrition is well recognized globally. It is crucial for the fulfilment of human rights- especially of the most vulnerable; the children, the girls and the women. Nutrition is acknowledged as one of the most effective entry points for human development, poverty reduction with high economic returns. 

Undernutrition is lack of quantity and/or quality of food required for optimal growth and health. Undernutrition is both a consequence as well as a cause of continuing poverty, eroding human capital through irreversible and intergenerational effects on cognitive and physical development. High levels of maternal and child undernutrition in India have persisted, despite strong Constitutional, legislative policy, plan and programme commitments including the National Food Security Act 2013 mandating food and nutrition entitlements for children, pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. 

Nutrition practices are social behaviours. We mostly eat what we are! Behaviour change appears to be an idea whose time has come. There is no easy or quick fix to changing behaviour for better health or better nutrition, but may be the potential of achieving impact at scale is through collaborations between scientists and public health experts. 

About Ms. Prachi Katre: 

Trained as a nutritional biochemist. Worked as a researcher for 12 years; worked as a part of Pune Maternal Nutritional Study Team (at KEM Hospital and Research centre, Pune) and studied 800 women and their families for 3 generations. 
Currently working as an independent consultant with various agencies such as Sight and Life, Gates Foundation, IPE Global and Government of India for implementation of science in the field of nutrition. 






Material:
Organised by Dr. Satyanarayana Bheesette
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