Bala Manju discusses the need for policy-level decisions to address food loss and waste in India. She presents the steps taken by the Indian government and the private sector to reduce food waste, including a series of bills and various awareness campaigns. Bala highlights a case study on the Food Corporation of India, showing how systematic data collection and analysis helped reduce post-harvest losses. She concludes by discussing the challenges and solutions to prevent food loss and waste in India, emphasizing the importance of better management for both nutritional and environmental security.

The third edition of the Knowledge Exchange Series follows the same format of pre-recorded experts’ videos to be viewed by participants prior to the engaging 90-minute dialogue session. Each session brings on a relevant, timely and vital theme around the nexus of nutrition, climate and agrifood system transformation. Building upon the previous series on India and responding to the demand from the practitioners in the South Asia region, this edition encompasses the challenges and solutions for the entire region. The series highlights innovations taking place in various countries of the region to present practical and actionable solutions on how to transform agrifood systems to address these concurrent and mutually reinforcing crises.