Dear Colleagues, Abstracts are being accepted for the 1st International Agrobiodiversity congress. Please submit your abstract to this congress. Accepting Abstracts 1st International Agrobiodiversity Congress 6-9 November, 2016 New Delhi, INDIA www.iac2016.in Satellite Session: Agrobiodiversity for Nutrition and Health November 7, 2016 Theme 1: Agrobiodiversity health and nutrition state of the art new knowledge Theme 2: Mainstreaming ABD into programmes and policies to improve food, nutrition and health A parallel session at the 1st International Agrobiodiversity Congress will be dedicated to Agrobiodiversity for Nutrition and Health. Abstracts are currently being accepted for two thematic areas; Agrobiodiversity health and nutrition state of the art new knowledge and Mainstreaming ABD into programmes and policies to improve food, nutrition and health. In theme one abstracts can include both quantitative and qualitative studies of food composition, dietary intake, new methodologies, documenting indigenous knowledge and local availability of agrobiodiversity. Topics for theme two include examples of integrating agrobiodiversity into programs to improve nutition and health such as integrated home gardening and other agriculture approaches to improve nutrition as well as integration of agrobiodiversity into social safety net schemes, locally sourced foods into school feeding or other programmes. Abstracts which review agriculture, nutrition and health policies or the enabling environment for mainstreaming agrobiodiversity are also welcome. Please submit your abstract online at the congress web site: www.iac2016.in<http://www.iac2016.in> Abstract DEADLINE 31 May 2016 Gina Kennedy, PhD Health Diets Initiative Component Leader (ai) Bioversity International Via Tre Denari, Maccarese, Italy Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Telephone: +39 06 6118 234 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the InFoods-Food-Comp-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=InFoods-Food-Comp-L&A=1