Dr Pallavi Choudhuri served as a panellist at the Inception Workshop of the Gender Responsive Cell organised by the Government of Odisha and IFPRI

Dr Pallavi Choudhuri, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow (NCAER-NDIC), served as a panellist at the Inception Workshop of the Gender Responsive Cell, organized by the Department of Agriculture & Farmers’ Empowerment, Government of Odisha, and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in a technical session on “Gender-Responsive Agricultural Transformation: Frameworks, Evidence and Research Priorities”, hosted at the Mayfair Lagoon, Bhubaneswar, Odisha on February 13, 2026.

Chaired by Professor C.S.C. Shankar (Institute of Economic Growth), the panel also included Dr Devesh Roy (Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI),  Dr Arun Kumar Panda (Principal Scientist and Head of GFCS Division, Central Institute for Women in Agriculture-ICAR), Dr Somabha Mohanty (National Lead- Gender Resilience and DRR, UN-Women), Dr Manjula Menon (Teaching Faculty at School of Development, Azim Premji University) and Professor Vijay Lakshmi Pandey (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research).

The panel highlighted the need for disaggregated data driven insights, deliberating on the gender-responsive planning, implementation, and monitoring within Odisha’s agricultural sector.