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dc.contributor.authorParasar, Rohit
dc.contributor.authorRV, Bhavani
dc.coverage.spatialIndiaen
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-30T09:42:58Z
dc.date.available2018-01-30T09:42:58Z
dc.date.issued2018-01-31
dc.identifier.citationParasar, P and RV, B. (2018) Private Business-Driven Value Chains and Nutrition: Insights from India in ‘Value Chains for Nutrition in South Asia: Who Delivers, How, and to Whom?’, IDS Bulletin 49.1, Brighton: IDSen
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/13515
dc.description.abstractDespite rapid economic growth, undernutrition rates in South Asia remain among the highest in the world. It is also seen that both rural and urban populations in developing countries are increasingly dependent on markets for food. This makes examining the potential of different agri‑food models to deliver nutritious foods relevant. This article examines the value chains of two fortified foods manufactured by private sector business in India using the conceptual framework in Maestre, Poole and Henson (2017), to understand their potential to reach economically poor households. We find that both value chains have potential but are unsuccessful in reaching nutritionally vulnerable populations. In both cases, a favourable institutional environment can enable them to have a pro‑nutrition and pro-poor focus. A proactive state role and regulation are called for to provide the necessary institutional environment to ensure that private business-led value chains focus on enhanced intake of nutritious food by low-income households.en
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartment for International Development (DFID)en
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dc.publisherInstitute of Development Studiesen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Bulletin;49.1
dc.rightsThis 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/legalcodeen
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen
dc.subjectNutritionen
dc.titlePrivate Business-Driven Value Chains and Nutrition: Insights from Indiaen
dc.typeSeries paper (IDS)en
dc.identifier.teamBusiness, Markets and the Stateen
dc.identifier.doi10.19088/1968-2018.102
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-01-31
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