Going Against the Grain of Optimism: Flour Fortification in Pakistan
dc.contributor.author | Ansari, N | |
dc.contributor.author | Mehmood, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Gazdar, H | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Pakistan | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-30T09:53:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-30T09:53:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-01-31 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ansari, N., Mehmood. R., and Gazdar, H. 'Going Against the Grain of Optimism: Flour Fortification in Pakistan' in Value Chains for Nutrition in South Asia: Who Delivers, How, and to Whom? IDS Bulletin 49.1, Brighton: IDS | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/13517 | |
dc.description.abstract | Food fortification is a popular strategy for addressing ‘hidden hunger’, and staple foods are seen as promising, if unproven, vehicles for the delivery of essential micronutrients to poor people in developing countries. This article examines wheat flour fortification with iron in Pakistan as a case of technocratic optimism in the face of institutional constraints. An evaluative framework based on the analysis of entire value chains can provide a reality check on technocratic optimism. We find that poor people based their preferences for different types of flour on price as well as perceptions of nutritional value. Many of these flour types are not covered by fortification programmes. Fortification interventions, meanwhile, have attempted to leverage public–private partnerships in a segment of the wheat flour value chain which is beset with regulatory weakness. This article illustrates why technical interventions should support rather than ignore a broader agenda of reforms in food policy. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Department for International Development (DFID) | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;49.1 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Nutrition | en |
dc.title | Going Against the Grain of Optimism: Flour Fortification in Pakistan | en |
dc.type | Series paper (IDS) | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Business, Markets and the State | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2018.104 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-01-31 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |
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