Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA): Recent submissions
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Would the People of Chhattisgarh Prefer Cash Transfers instead of Foodgrain?
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2017)The overwhelming and consistent preference for grain over cash is striking, especially since this preference was expressed by both men and women, irrespective of class, age, or community. It is useful to examine reasons ... -
Women’s Empowerment Mitigates the Negative Effects of Low Production Diversity on Maternal and Child Nutrition in Nepal
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2015-09-01)We use household survey data from Nepal to investigate relationships between women’s empowerment in agriculture and production diversity on maternal and child dietary diversity and anthropometric outcomes. Production ... -
Household Dairy Production and Child Growth: Evidence from Bangladesh
(Elsevier B.V., 2018-07-17)Research from richer countries finds that dairy consumption has strong positive associations with linear growth in children, but surprisingly little evidence exists for developing countries where diets are far ... -
Fragile Environment, Seasonality and Undernutrition in Bangladesh
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2018-06)Undernutrition among mothers and children remains one of the main public health challenges of the 21st century, particularly in low and middle-income countries (Victora et al., 2010). The causes of malnutrition are directly ... -
Supplementary Nutrition Programme under ICDS: Case Study of Telangana and Tamil Nadu
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2018-07)Government food distribution programmes have the potential to reduce malnutrition at scale. The Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP) under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in India presents a unique ... -
Crop Diversity, Dietary Diversity and Nutritional Outcome in Rural Bangladesh: Evidences from VDSA Panel Household Surveys
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2018-07)Does crop diversity contribute toward dietary diversity and nutritional status of rural households in Bangladesh? The present study tries to answer this question. It has analysed panel household survey data collected from ... -
Improving Household Diet Diversity Through Promotion of Nutrition Gardens in India
(The American Association for Science and Technology (AASCIT), 2018)This paper describes the introduction of nutrition garden to address household diet diversity in Wardha, Maharashtra and Koraput, Odisha. The study started with a detailed baseline survey and its assessment in 2013-14 ... -
Animal Sourced Foods and Child Nutrition in South Asia: Policy Priorities
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2018-03)Although some South Asian countries have recently made impressive progress against undernutrition, indicators of maternal and child nutrition remain extremely poor across South Asia. These exceptionally high rates of ... -
Effect of Agricultural Seasons on Energy Intake: Evidence from Two Agro-Ecologically Different Rural Districts of India
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2018)Seasonality is recognised as a constraint to agricultural production and food and nutrition security of rural households. It alters the energy intake from different groups of foods based on the availability. These variations ... -
Analysing Pakistan’s Modern Dairy Value-Chain Innovation
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2018-06)Interventions in agri-food value chains are thought to potentially make important contributions towards enhancing agriculture’s role in nutrition. Some frameworks have begun to identify sets of requirements for pro-nutrition ... -
How Can Health, Agriculture and Economic Policy Actors Work Together to Enhance the External Food Environment for Fruit and Vegetables? A Qualitative Policy Analysis in India
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018-04-18)The benefits of fruit and vegetables are well established, particularly their role in preventing general micronutrient-deficiencies and chronic diseases. However, global food systems are not delivering diverse and high ... -
Can Business-driven Fortified Foods Reach Nutritionally Vulnerable Households? A Case Study of Tiger Biscuits
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2018-04)Fortification of food has been an effective way to address micronutrient deficiency. This paper presents a case study of iron-fortified Tiger brand biscuits of Britannia Industries Limited (BIL). The study uses a conceptual ... -
A Value-Chain Perspective on Wheat Flour Fortification in Pakistan
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2018-04)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 the poor in developing countries. This ... -
The Role of Irrigation in Enabling Dietary Diversity in Afghanistan
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2018-03)This paper adds to the sparse literature on irrigation-diet linkages by contributing fresh evidence from Afghanistan and addresses the lacuna regarding the pathways through which such linkages may operate. Using data ... -
Effectiveness of the Value Chain of an Agri-Food Product in Reaching Low Income Consumers: A Business Case Study of Amulspray
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2018-03)A large section of the population in South Asia is undernourished. Agriculture is the main source of livelihood in the region. Following the framework detailed in Henson and Humphrey (2015), this paper attempts to assess ... -
Farming Systems for Improved Nutrition in Bangladesh
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2018-01)International literature places great importance on nutrition sensitive agricultural interventions to improve health and nutrition; particularly in communities where potential for agricultural growth is promising. Despite ... -
An Analysis of Protein Consumption in India Through Plant and Animal Sources
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2018-02)Cereals are the major source of protein in the Indian diet. In recent years, due to declining preference the consumption of cereals is decreasing in spite of increasing output. Therefore, the country needs to further ... -
Factors Which May Limit the Value Of Dietary Diversity and its Association With Nutritional Outcomes in Preschool Children in High Burden Districts of India
(2018-02)Dietary diversity plays a critical role in infants as they need energy and nutrient dense foods for both physical and mental development. This study examines whether three dietary diversity indices validate against Nutrient ... -
Stories of Change in Nutrition: An Overview
(Elsevier, 2017)After a period of relative success in generating political momentum to address malnutrition, there is an increasing urgency to focus on implementation and impact on the ground. This requires better documentation of the ... -
Reprint of: What will it take to accelerate improvements in nutrition outcomes in Odisha? Learning from the past
(Elsevier, 2017)The Indian state of Odisha has made significant strides to address health and nutrition in the last 25 years. We used public data, policy and program documents, published literature, and interviews with program and policy ...