IDS Bulletin: Value Chains for Nutrition in South Asia: Who Delivers, How, and to Whom?

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.

Animal sourced foods and child nutrition in SA: Policy priorities

 
Although some South Asian countries have recently made impressive progress against undernutrition, indicators of maternal and child nutrition remain extremely poor across South Asia. In all countries except the Maldives and Sri Lanka, more than a third of preschool children are stunted, 33–52 percent of adult women have anemia and most countries have wasting prevalence in excess of 10% (considered “alarming”).

Women’s Agricultural Work and Nutrition in South Asia: Policy Priorities

For many rural South Asian women, global efforts for the recognition of women’s contribution to the care economy, or for the greater visibility of women’s reproductive
labour, is a step too far.

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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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