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In the past two decades since India achieved high economic growth, a curious problem has haunted the country and vexed its policy makers: India’s rising GDP has had little impact on food security and the nutrition levels of its population. Per capita availability as well as consumption of food grains has declined; the cereal intake of the bottom 30% of the population continues to be much less than that of the top two deciles of the population, despite the latter group’s better access to fruits, vegetables and meat products; the calorie consumption of the bottom half of the population has been consistently going down since 1987; the percentage of under-nourished stunted children was as high as 39% in 2014; and more than half of India’s women and three-quarters of its children are anaemic, with little decline in these estimates in the past eight years, resulting in maternal mortality and underweight babies. As part of …