Contextualizing the 20th Environment for Development (EfD) Annual Meeting; Centre for Research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy and Environment (CECFEE) & India-Japan Centre on Climate and Culture (IJCCC)'s research mandate at the nexus of climate, agriculture, and welfare.
Inaugural Remarks
Strengthening data pipelines from field to policy across the Global South.
MoSPI's survey evolution (Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES), Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE)), capturing economic transitions, and enabling researcher access for policy insights.
Leveraging household surveys to assess climate vulnerability, food access, and agrarian policy across African contexts.
Macroeconomic data needs, climate-inflation risks, and researcher-government interfaces.
Translating household consumption data into nutrition-sensitive interventions.
Unpacking HCES data. Modelling dietary diversity, micronutrient gaps, spatial consumption shifts, and policy use cases for food security programs.
Linking farming systems, sustainable diets, and public health; overcoming nutrient shortfalls through policy and science.
Targeting social protection (Public Distribution System (PDS), Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman (PM POSHAN)), supply-chain realignments, and economic returns on human capital.
Actionable pathways connecting agriculture, climate adaptation, and nutrition policy.
Summary of policy recommendations, Global South collaboration priorities, and official opening of the Environment for Development (EfD) technical conference.