Agriculture, nutrition and gender in India
The South Asian region has one of the highest rates of child and maternal undernutrition in the world
Abstraxct
Undernutrition is widespread and persistent even in India despite its relatively strong economic performance and is particularly high in rural areas and among those in agriculture based livelihoods. Though agriculture has the enormous potential to contribute to improvements in undernutrition, the evidence so far in the Indian context demonstrates weak linkages between agriculture and nutrition (Kadiyala et al. 2014). Few studies in the past have focused on adult nutritional outcomes, specifically on women’s nutritional status, which has emerged as an important research topic in recent years and is an area of focus of LANSA’s research in the region and in India.
This research is supported by the Department for International Development’s by the Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) programme
Citation
Prakash Shetty, R.V. Bhavani, and Rohit Parasar. Agriculture, nutrition and gender in India. Research Brief No 3, September 2016, 4p
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