LANSA Responsive Window I
Four successful research grants - Public Health Foundation of India, OKAPI, School of International Development - UEA and University of Southampton contributed to the enabling environments research theme under LANSA. The studies were supported under the LANSA’s Responsive Window I opportunity and have helped improve our understanding of how to develop enabling environments for agriculture and agri-food systems to effectively play their part in addressing undernutrition.
LANSA has organised stakeholder consultation three focus countries – Bangladesh, India and Pakistan in 2014, and this process informed our policy-related research priorities in the region. The Call for Proposals was announced in April 2014 and attracted 94 bids from the LANSA focus countries.
The successful research proposals and resulting research outputs were:
- Leveraging fruit and vegetable supply policies to tackle the dual problem of malnutrition in India / Public Health Foundation of India
- Strengthening fruit and vegetable supply-chain policies and programmes in India
- Identifying nutrition-sensitive interventions to improve maternal diet quality in rural Indian settings using value chain analysis / University of Southampton, UK
- Implementation of the ICDS in Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh (India): a systemic study
- Would the People of Chhattisgarh Prefer Cash Transfers instead of Foodgrain?
- FAN Innovation Systems and Institutions: Enabling Alternative Policy Frameworks for Food, Agriculture and Nutrition / OKAPI, India
About LANSA Responsive Window opportunity
This facility seeks to engender a wider sense of engagement among national and regional stakeholders in the core challenge of improving the impact of agri-food systems, policies, programmes and interventions on nutrition.
For more information, contact Sangeetha Rajeesh, Research Uptake Manager for LANSA at sangeetha@mssrf.res.in