South Asia has experienced rapid economic growth, yet it still has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the world, and half the population is undernourished. Besides children …
Efforts to give a pro-nutrition focus to agriculture to address the problem of undernutrition in developing countries have predominantly focused on boosting production and/or …
R Parasar, RV Bhavani - IDS Bulletin, 2018 - researchgate.net
Despite 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 …
Considerable recent research has tried to link agricultural production and the distribution of nutrient-rich foods to consumption, and hence improved health, of nutritionally vulnerable …
R Adhikari - Agricultural Transformation in Nepal: Trends, Prospects …, 2019 - Springer
This chapter reviews the existing government policies and programmes on high-value chain development and by using a case study, demonstrates how value chains can benefit …
MS Mazhar, BE Bajwa, G McEvilly… - … of Environmental and …, 2019 - researchgate.net
About 60% of Pakistan's population live in rural areas where multidimensional poverty is much higher than it is in urban centres. The majority of the rural population depends on …
M Maestre, N Poole - IDS Bull, 2018 - bulletin.ids.ac.uk
There is currently much talk of the private sector role in nutrition, and whether the state can better'shape'the market to deliver nutritional outcomes. This article introduces an issue of the …
M Maestre, N Poole, S Henson - Food Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
This article offers insights into assessing the effectiveness of post farm-gate agri-food value chains at improving the nutrition intake of vulnerable groups. It develops a conceptual …
A Kumar, H Singh, S Kumar… - Agricultural Economics …, 2011 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Background Agri-food systems are undergoing rapid transformations and the emergence of integrated food supply chains is one of the most visible market phenomena in India …