Seedling School of Law and Governance, Jaipur is organising an international conference on ‘Right to Food’ to be held on April 27th & 28th, 2013.
Theme: Right to food
Sub – Themes:
Right to food: Global perspective I: Dimensions
Right to food as human right: Issues of poverty and social inequality and right to food
Right to adequate diet: the agriculture-food-health nexus
FAO and right to adequate food for all
Right to food: Global perspective II: impediments to right to food
Food price volatility
Land tenures and right to food
Investment and right to food
Right to food and access to natural resources (including water)
Indian perspective I: Right to food: Indian Scenario
The problem: the agriculture-food-health nexus
Planning commission of India and five year plans
PDS System and Food Corporation of India: Failure and success
New Initiatives: MNREAGA and others
Indian perspective II: search for a legal perspective
Survey of existing legal framework
Access to judiciary
Legislating for right to food: Formulation and implementation of Laws on the right to food: food security bill
A monitoring framework for a right to adequate food: RTI
Indian perspective III: Right to food: special problem
Women and children: issues of health and nutrition
BPL
Indigenous people
Disaster management and disaster relief
Indian perspective III: NGO and Food Security in India
NGO s as an interface between government and society
NGOs and food security
NGOs and water resources
NGOs and health nutrition
Word Limit:
Abstract: 300 words
Paper: Not exceeding 15 pages
Registration Fee:
Indian Students: Rs. 500/-
Indian Teachers: Rs. 1,000/-
Indian Research Scholars: Rs. 1,500/-
(Includes food & accommodation)
Deadlines:
Paper and Abstract Submission: April 22, 2013
Registration: April 28, 2013
Contact Details:
Dr. Dinesh Babu: 8890085166, 9252336666
Mr. Manish Yadav: 9509873030
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