Govardhan Ecovillage To Host Food & Lifestyle Conference As Part Of Ongoing G20 Summit

The food & Life (Lifestyle for Environment) conference as part of the Civil-20 will be held on the 25th and 26th of May 2023, at the Govardhan Ecovillage of Palghar, Maharashtra. This conference is part of India's G20 Presidency initiatives.

Chief Minister, Eknath Shinde, Deputy CM, Devendra Fadnavis and Founder of Exchange4Media & Editor in Chief of BW Businessworld, Dr. Annurag Batra are among the key dignitaries at the event. 

The internal theme of the conference is Purusharth & Prakriti. The four purusarthas are Dharma (righteousness, moral values); Artha (prosperity, economic values); Kama (pleasure, love, psychological values); and Moksha (liberation, spiritual values). One needs to value and abide by them as the core values of one's life.

At this two-day-long conference, various key topics on food and hunger will be discussed; Hunger Free Districts, Food Loss Prevention & Waste Management, Food as a Mobiliser For Social Impact and Food as Medicine are a few of them.  

Also, the event will offer a constructive dialogue between various verticals of the For-Profit & Not-for-Profit ecosystems including Government ministers, Civil society organisations, Celebrities, Bureaucrats, Ambassadors & Envoys, Media, Grassroot personnel, and multilateral institutions to achieve policy-level recommendations and best practices for the entire world to adopt to live a socially responsible life.

C20 India 2023 is one of the official Engagement Groups of the G20 that provides a platform for Civil Society Organisations (CSO) around the world to voice people’s aspirations to world leaders in G20. It gives CSOs a forum to protect the agency of this sector, reflects the primary and common concerns affecting the world’s peoples and promotes social and economic development with the vision of leaving no one behind.