On the occasion of World food day, department of social work, central university of Jammu organised a regional consultation on theme “Regional consultation on diversity of Indian food systems: contemporary issues and challenges”. The conveners of the consultation are Dr. Ranvir singh and Dr. Bhat Iqbal. The consultation was formally started by welcome address by Dr. Nancy Mengi. The consultation had three sessions capturing the diversity knowledge scapes by experts from disciplines of ayurveda, botany, Agriculture, tribal culture, regional organisations and social work. First session was based on food, Agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge; understanding the triad. The session had Dr. Sanjeev kumar from SKUAST, Jammu, Dr. Vasanta kohli Sr, dietician from, Jammu and Ranjoy Gupta, research scholar from department of social work, central university of Jammu as panelists. . The session was moderated by research scholar, Jaspreet singh. Second session was based on food, culture and ethnobotanical diversity; reflections from the field which had Dr Samantha from department of botany, Central University of Jammu, Javiad rahi, tribal researcher and social activist and professor Hariramamurthi from Bengaluru as panelists. This session was moderated by research scholar, suhel. The third session was based on insights on food: health, policy and market interlinkages. The session had Dr, Vikas Bajpai from centre of social medicine, CSMCH, JNU and Dr. Vikas Gupta from Jammu institute of ayurveda and research as panel members. The session was moderated by research scholar Joji Abraham.
