SPECIAL ISSUE: LEVERAGING AGRICULTURE FOR NUTRITION IN SOUTH ASIA
Despite significant improvements over recent decades, rates of undernutrition remain high in South Asia, with adverse impacts on morbidity and mortality. Overweight/obesity, among children and adults, is now an additional and major public health concern. While agriculture has the potential to improve nutrition through several pathways, this potential is currently not being realised in the region.
Key Issue Guide: Women, agriculture and the nutrition factor
Research under the Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia programme in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan has identified women’s agricultural work in South Asia as a critical mediating factor between household poverty and undernutrition. The recognition of their work and women themselves as agricultural workers were identified as key entry points to leverage agriculture for improving nutrition.
Theme: Women, agriculture and the nutrition factor.
Key Issue Guide: Healthy diets and markets
Research under the Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia programme in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan has provided insights into the ways in which nutritious foods can be delivered to the poor, exploring public and private approaches, different delivery systems and policy options.
Theme ‘Healthy diets and markets’.
