Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA): Recent submissions
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Fragile Environment, Seasonality, and Maternal and Childhood Undernutrition in Bangladesh
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2016-12)Spatial distribution of poverty in Bangladesh shows that poverty is concentrated in ecologically unfavourable areas. Recently, the issue of spatial distribution of undernutrition has emerged as a matter of concern as well, ... -
Does Agriculture Promote Diet Diversity? A Bangladesh Study
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2016-12)It is now widely recognised that intake of sufficient dietary energy does not ensure adequate intake of protein and micronutrients necessary for leading an active and healthy life. Legumes, animal products, fruit and ... -
Child underweight, land productivity and public services: a district-level analysis for India
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2016-03)Though India’s rank has improved in the Global Hunger Index, contributed largely by the fall in the underweight rates for children, concerns of high level of undernutrition in predominantly agricultural pockets remain. ... -
Learning From the Past: Framing of Undernutrition in India Since Independence and Its Links to Agriculture
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2016-02)Understanding policy debates from the past can help to explain and address the challenges of today. Agriculture can play an important role in the reduction of undernutrition in India. However, the nutrition-enhancing ... -
Review of Agri-Food Value Chain Interventions Aimed at Enhancing Consumption of Nutritious Food by the Poor: Pakistan
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2016-07)How can agriculture play a more effective role in improving nutrition in countries with a high burden of hidden hunger and where an increasing proportion of the poor sources its food from the market? There is a need to ... -
Assessing the Effectiveness of Agri-Food Value Chain Interventions Aimed at Enhancing Consumption of Nutritious Food by the Poor: Conceptual Framework
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2015-12)South Asia has experienced rapid economic growth, yet it still has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the world, and half the population is undernourished. Besides children, undernutrition among women and adolescent ... -
Dietary Diversity and Women’s BMI among Farm Households in Rural India
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2015-09)Undernutrition is more widespread and persistent in South Asia, including India, with higher numbers of undernourished people living in rural areas. Indian evidence often shows a weak linkage between agriculture and ... -
Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia and East Africa: examining the enabling environment through stakeholder perceptions
(Springer, 2015-06)South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are the two regions of the world with the highest concentration of undernutrition. The majority of the nutritionally vulnerable populations in both regions is dependent in some way upon ... -
Markets for Nutrition
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2015-03)Making safe, nutrient-rich foods more accessible to people on low-incomes is one way to reduce micronutrient undernutrition (the lack of essential nutrients and minerals required by the body for healthy development). ... -
Women’s Agricultural Work and Nutrition in Pakistan: Findings from Qualitative Research
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2015-01)Does women’s work in agriculture help or hinder nutrition in Pakistan? This question has assumed great significance due to the steady feminisation, over the last decade, of the agricultural labour force, and the absence ... -
The other Asian enigma: Explaining the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Bangladesh
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2015-01)Bangladesh has managed to sustain a surprisingly rapid reduction in the rate of child undernutrition for at least two decades. The two largest drivers of change that have prompted this unheralded success are large gains ... -
Agriculture and Nutrition in Pakistan: Pathways and Disconnects
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2014-10)Results of the latest nationwide nutrition survey show that Pakistan has persistently high rates of undernutrition despite respectable rates of economic growth. Amongst economic sectors, agriculture could have positive ... -
Operationalizing the concept of farming system for nutrition through the promotion of nutrition-sensitive agriculture
(Indian Academy of Sciences with Current Science Association, 2014-09)Despite impressive gains in agricultural production and greater availability of food many people in India suffer from undernutrition. Improvements in agricultural production that lead to greater access to nutritious food ... -
Agriculture and Child Under-Nutrition in India: A State Level Analysis
(Madras School of Economics, 2014-07)The literature review on agriculture-child nutrition linkage indicates that the evidence base is weak and inconclusive (Kadiyala et al., 2013). This paper explores the possible linkages between agricultural prosperity with ... -
Convergence on Nutrition in Agricultural Systems of Innovation: Concepts and Methods, with Examples from Pakistan
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2014-10)The paper first briefly sketches the origins of the system of innovation (SoI) concept and the need it was seen to fulfil in agriculture. It then illustrates the different ways it has been employed as a framework to explain ... -
Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Production Diversity, and Nutrition: Evidence from Nepal
(International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2013-12)It is increasingly recognised that agricultural growth and development do not necessarily translate into improved nutrition outcomes. Policymakers are increasingly grappling with how to design and implement agricultural ... -
Agriculture and nutrition in Pakistan: pathways and disconnects
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2013-05)This paper analyses the pathways and disconnects between agriculture and nutrition in the context of Pakistan, using a framework developed by theTackling the Agriculture-Nutrition Disconnect in India (TANDI) research ...