The ICAR-Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar, Odisha organized a National Webinar on “Alleviating Malnutrition and Promoting Gender Equity through Rural Poultry Production in India” on 3 February 2021. The webinar was organized with the objectives to orient participants about current scenario of rural poultry sector and its contribution to livelihood improvement of farm women and to develop women entrepreneurship in rural poultry sector for enhancing income and household nutrition of farm families. Dr. P.S. Pandey, ADG (EP&HS), ICAR graced the occasion as the chief guest. In his inaugural address, he highlighted the importance of the Webinar’s topic to the current scenario in the country. He emphasized the importance of rural poultry to enhance income and promote women empowerment and advised that backyard poultry should be an integral component of SCSP and TSP programme of ICAR. He also suggested that the demand and supply gap for promoting backyard poultry in the country may also be worked out. In his address, Dr. S.K. Srivastava, Director, ICAR-CIWA, Bhubaneswar, Odisha highlighted that Poultry represents an important system to feed the fast growing human population in developing countries like India and to provide income to poor small farmers, especially women. He stressed on the promotion and implementation of long term planning to make rural poultry production a sustainable way for food and nutrition security at both the household and community levels.