Food, Plants And Medicine: Reconnecting Ties
Join us to explore the significance of lost food, plants, and medicine in fostering health and wellbeing
To celebrate International World Health Day, Azim Premji University is hosting a one-day exhibition to engage in conversations around food, plants, and medicine to promote health and well-being.
Recognising the increasing policy attention on the importance of bringing back millets as a part of our daily diet, a vast variety of local pulses, beans, and grains once considered rich sources of protein have yet to be found.
Through the exhibition, we will engage in many activities that highlight the importance of food, traditional crops, medicinal plants, and dying food habits as integral tools for ensuring health and well-being.
Event flow | April 5, 2024
Time | Event |
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9:30 AM ‑12:30 PM | Exhibition: Explore stalls by nonprofit organizations showcasing the lost food products, practices, and recipes, which were an integral part of our lifestyle and added to our overall health. |
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM | Lunch |
1:30 PM — 4:30 PM | Conversations — Food, plants and medicine: Reconnecting ties |
1:30 PM — 1:40 PM | Setting the context | Arima Mishra |
1:40 PM- 2:00 PM | Launch of documentation work of students from Master of Public Health Programme on‘Capturing the Essence of Medicinal Plants’ |
2:00 PM — 2:30 PM | Food, plants and medicine in primary health care: What is the future? Unnikrishnan P. (Transdisciplinary University, Bengaluru) |
2:30 PM- 3:00 PM | Dipa Sinha (Ambedkar University, Delhi) : Hunger, Food, Calories and Malnutrition — Politics of Rights and Redistribution. |
3:00 PM — 3:30 PM | Bichitra Biswal (Living Farms, Odisha): Nutritional security through promoting dietary diversity among adivasi communities in Odisha |
3:30 PM- 4:00 PM | N. Sudha (Independent Researcher Activist) : Millets for whom? Politics of traditional food, ecology and health |
4:00 PM — 4:30 PM | Discussion and Q & A |
4:30 PM — 6:00 PM | High Tea and Exhibition continues |