Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia and East Africa: examining the enabling environment through stakeholder perceptions
South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are the two regions of the world with the highest concentration of undernutrition. The majority of the nutritionally vulnerable populations
in both regions is dependent in some way upon agriculture as a primary source of livelihood. The agriculture sectorand wider agri-food system is considered to be central to
sustained progress in reducing undernutrition – and yet not enough is known about how to unleash this potential. Recent scoping assessments have also revealed a paucity of information on wider political, institutional and policy-related challenges relating to the agriculture-nutrition nexus globally.
