Machine generated contents note: About the organizers: UADRA and SANFEC /1 -- The Using Agricultural Diversity Research Awards Program (UADRA) /1 -- South Asia Network for Food, Ecology and Culture (SANFEC) / 3 -- Swagata: Welcoming the Participants /6 -- Welcoming Address: UBINIG: / 6 -- Welcoming Address: SANFEC: / 6 -- Welcoming Address: Using Agricultural Diversity Research Award Program and IDRC: /7 -- Introduction to the workshop theme / 8 -- Concept paper, the collective process & Tasks / 8 -- 1. Dr. K. Vijayalakshmi of Center for Indian Knowledge Systems on Uncultivated Plant -- Diversity for Food, Pest Control and Medicine: Examples from Tamil Nadu, India /12 -- Discussions / 13 -- 2. Megh Ranjani Rai of IDRC Project"Gender, Ethnicity and Agro-biodiversity Management -- in the Eastern Himalayas" Nepal & India /13 -- Discussions / 14 -- 3. Pandurang Hegde of Prakruti, Karnataka, India on "A Study of Uncultivated Food -- Species in Uttara Karnataka" /14 -- Discussions / 15 -- 4. Shahid Zia of SDPI, Islamabad, Pakistan on "Use of Uncultivated Food Plants in -- Pakistan" / 16 -- Discussions /17 -- 5. Dr. Thomas Schaetzel of Micronutrient Initiatives, Bangladesh on "Micronutrients and -- Uncultivated Foods" /17 -- Discussions / 18 -- 6. Dr. Debal Deb of Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on "Wild and Uncultivated Plants -- and Animals as Food Resource: the Bengal Paradigm" /18 -- Discussions /19 -- 7. Chandra Hewa Halege of Women's Section, Community Education Center, Srilanka, on -- The impact of Pesticides / 20 -- Discussions / 20 -- 8. Suresh Reddy and P.V. Satheesh, DDS, Hyderabad, India, "On Uncultivated Food and -- the Poor" / 21 -- Discussions / 22 -- 9. Farida Akhter, UBINIG on "Uncultivated Shaks as regular food for the poor" / 23 -- Discussions / 25 -- 10. Dadirai Chahande of Community Technology Development Trust, Zimbabwe on -- "Traditional Vegetables of Zimbabwe" / 25 -- Discussions / 26 -- The Collection and Cooking Exercise / 27 -- The Nepal Team / 27 -- The Pakistan Team / 29 -- The Indian Team / 30 -- The Bangladesh Team / 31 -- Canada - Bangladesh Team / 32 -- Group Discussions & Presentations of Group Reports / 34 -- Finalization of Inputs from the Workshop Deliberations / 42 -- Final Concept Paper / 44 -- Uncultivated Food in the Food Systems of South Asia -- A General Framework for the Study of Uncultivated Food / 45 -- Future Activities & Plans / 48 -- Cooking with Uncultivated Plants: -- Outline of a Research Methodology / 50 -- Written Papers Submitted by the Participants in the Workshop/ 54 -- Traditional Vegetables of Zimbabwe Dadirai Chihande 54 -- Study of Uncultivated Food Species in Uttara Kannada, Karnataka, India! Pandurang -- Hegde / 61 -- Uncultivated Plant Diversity for Food, Pest Control and Medicine: Examples from Tamil -- Nadu, India / K. Vijayalakshmi /67 -- Use of Uncultivated Food in Pakistan / Shahid Zia /76 -- Uncultivated Food and the Poor/ P.V. Satheesh / 78 -- Micronutrients and Uncultivated Foods /Thomas Schaetzel /93 -- Promotion of Uncultivated Food & Plants within the Women's Program of the Community -- education Centre /Chandra Hewa Halege /95 -- "Uncultivated Shaks: Food Security of the Poor" Bangladesh / Ubinig / 97 -- Wild and Uncultivated Plants and Animals as Food Resource: the Bengal -- Paradigm/ Debal Deb / 109 -- Venue of the Workshop /114 -- Food items collected by Farmers from different districts and -- villages for the SANFEC Workshop /115 -- Programme for South Asian Meeting on Uncultivated Food and Plants /116 -- List of Participants/ 18.