Inclusive Food Systems: Women and Nutrition with Dr Shubh Swain.
In the third episode of our Inclusive Food Systems podcast series, our guest is Dr Shubh Swain and we explore gender and nutrition in India, attempting to answer questions pertaining to the special nutrition needs of women, social norms and harmful misconceptions that govern what, when and how much women eat and also government interventions for women’s nutritional needs.
In the episode, Dr Swain takes us through his learnings and his own journey working at the intersection of gender and nutrition, while delineating for us what gender-sensitive approaches to nutrition entail.
About the Guest:
Dr Swain is a Research Associate at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University. He is the Assistant Director of the Technical Assistance and Research for Indian Nutrition and Agriculture (TARINA) program of Tata-Cornell Institute. He has a multidisciplinary background spanning gender responsive food systems, male involvement, intimate partner violence and women's health, migration and communicable disease, and agriculture and nutrition in the Indian sub continent and East Africa.