Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA): Recent submissions
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Gender, Agriculture, and Nutrition in South Asia: Conceptualising the Links
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2017)Even with higher economic growth and an overall reduction in poverty, there exists child undernutrition, maternal undernutrition and diverse forms of micro nutrient deficiencies – a phenomenon labelled as the South Asian ... -
Implementation of the ICDS in Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh (India): a systemic study
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2017-06)The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme – India’s flagship social welfare prescription for children (0–6 years) has achieved mixed implementation success. Considerable inter-state variation in the quality ... -
Strengthening fruit and vegetable supply-chain policies and programmes in India
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2017)India currently has one of the highest numbers of malnourished children in the world – 8% stunted, 43% underweight, and 20% overweight and obese. This distressing public health scenario is further exacerbated by a high ... -
Agriculture, nutrition and gender in India
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2016)The South Asian region has one of the highest rates of child and maternal undernutrition in the world. Undernutrition is widespread and persistent even in India despite its relatively strong economic performance and is ... -
Agriculture-nutrition linkages and child undernutrition in India
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2016)The South Asian region and in particular India, has one of the highest rates of child undernutrition in the world, and is home to around 40 per cent of the global total of children who are stunted. Child stunting has been ... -
Gendered Time, Seasonality and Nutrition: Insights from Two Indian Districts
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2017-12)Relatively few studies explore the links between women’s work in agriculture and nutritional outcomes. Using time use data from two Indian districts, this paper seeks to fill this gap. In principle, women’s agricultural ... -
Farming Systems for Improved Nutrition: a Formative Study
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2017-11)International literature accords immense importance to agriculture interventions in order to achieve better health and nutrition. It stresses the importance of women’s engagement, diversified production and consumption, ... -
Agriculture can improve nutrition in Afghanistan
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2017-11)While there are multiple causes of malnutrition in Afghanistan, undernutrition and lack of dietary diversity point to micronutrient deficiencies rather than generalised food insecurity. This implies a major role for ... -
Situational Analysis of Pulse Production and Consumption in India
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2017-11)Encouraging the production and consumption of pulses is in line with the second Sustainable Development Goal’s three-fold objective to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable ... -
Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in Fragile Contexts
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2017-09)Fragility, resulting both from violent conflict and/or severely adverse environmental conditions linked to climate change, fundamentally alters the linkages between agriculture and nutrition outcomes. This paper argues ... -
Fragile environment, seasonality and maternal and childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)This study assessed whether agricultural and household incomes were the same across different agro-ecological environments in Bangladesh. An in-depth analysis of the effect of unfavourable ecologies on maternal and child ... -
Household Approaches to Factors Affecting Nutrition: a Study of Two Indian Districts, Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2017-08)A number of factors affect a household’s nutritional status: food production; access and availability of food; care in the home; health, water, sanitation and hygiene practices; women’s agency and empowerment; and women’s ... -
Understanding District Ecosystems: Implementation of Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Policies in Sabarkantha and Bijapur Districts (India)
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2017-07)Nutrition policies are shaped at a national and state level in India; however programmes are implemented by the district administration. This paper considers the implementation of nutrition programmes in two districts - ... -
Connecting Agriculture to better Nutrition in South Asia: Innovation as a process of socio-technical change
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2017-07)In South Asia, undernutrition remains a widespread problem, in spite of strong economic growth in countries such as India, which continues to struggle with stubbornly high rates of maternal malnutrition and child stunting. ... -
The Policy Environment for Food, Agriculture and Nutrition in India: Taking Stock and Looking Forward
(Leveraging, 2017-07)India’s policy environment has undergone a substantial overhaul since 2014, when a new government came in. This paper discusses recent changes in, and the current state of, food, agriculture and nutrition policies in India ... -
India’s National Food Security Act (NFSA): Early Experiences
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2017-06)In September 2013, the Parliament of India passed the National Food Security Act (NFSA) that made ‘right to food’ a legal entitlement for approximately three-fourths of the rural population and half of the urban population ... -
Value chain analysis in India to identify nutrition-sensitive interventions for improved maternal diets in India
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-06)University of Southampton undertook a study titled 'Identifying nutritionsensitive interventions to improve maternal diet quality in rural Indian settings using value chain analysis' supported by the Leveraging Agriculture ... -
Assessing food value chain pathways, linkages and impacts for better nutrition of vulnerable groups
(Elsevier, 2017-01-11)This article offers insights into assessing the effectiveness of post farm-gate agri-food value chains at improving the nutrition intake of vulnerable groups. It develops a conceptual framework integrating the value chain ... -
Child Under-weight and Agricultural Productivity in India: Implications for Public Provisioning and Women’s Agency
(SAGE Publications, 2015-05)A recent global hunger index indicated a 12 percent decline in child underweight rates. This study attempts an empirical explanation of the factors that influence child underweight rates at the district level. Agricultural ... -
Review of Agri-Food Chain Interventions Aimed at Enhancing Consumption of Nutritious Food by the Poor: Bangladesh
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2017-01)Bangladesh is primarily an agrarian nation. Most of the people of the country directly or indirectly depend on agriculture. Rural people are more involved in this sector compared to urban people. Agriculture is the single ...