Connecting Agriculture to better Nutrition in South Asia: Innovation as a process of socio-technical change

This paper explores the role of innovation in strengthening the linkages between agriculture and nutrition in South Asia. This paper eschews the common bias in discourse about ‘innovation’ towards eye-catching novelty and invention, which emphasises high-tech gadgets and devices, external inputs and industrially and/or commercially produced technologies.

Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in Fragile Contexts

Fragility, resulting both from violent conflict and/or severely adverse environmental conditions linked to climate change, fundamentally alters the linkages between agriculture and nutrition outcomes.

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.

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This research has been funded by the UK Government’s Department for International Development; however the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the UK Government’s official policies

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