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Nigel Poole, Jessica Agnew, Natasha Ansari, Bhavani R.V., Mar Maestre Morales, Rashid Mehmood, Rohit Parasar
This article concerns the role of the state and the private sector in addressing Sustainable Development Goal 2, which is to end hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition, and promote...

Barnali Chakraborty, Shrinivas Darak, Hinke Haisma
Maternal and child survival is a major public health problem in haor areas in Bangladesh. Fathers feel responsible as expressed by their capability “to save the future”. Using the...

Mahesh Maske, Manoj Sayre, Mahesh Sadatpure, Rv Bhavani
Cotton harvesting is a laborious task performed mostly by women farm workers. Farm Science Centre, Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur, Maharashtra has designed cotton harvesting bags as...

Mahesh Maske, Sariput Landage, Manoj Sayre, R.V. Bhavani
Backyard poultry production system is mostly found in rural, resource-poor areas that often suffer either from food/nutritional insecurity. Family or rural poultry farming provides households with...

Barnali Chakraborty, Sepideh Yousefzadeh, Shrinivas Darak and Hinke Haisma
Background: Childhood stunting is an important public health problem in the haor region of Bangladesh. Haor areas are located in the north-eastern part of the country and are vulnerable to seasonal...

Sangeetha Rajeesh, DJ Nithya, S Raju, RV Bhavani
Nutrition awareness on leveraging agriculture, balanced diet, nutrient content in different foods etc. was undertaken at multiple levels under the Farming System for Nutrition study in India....

Sangeetha Rajeesh, DJ Nithya, S Raju , RV Bhavani
Farming System for Nutrition involves the introduction of agricultural remedies for addressing undernutrition in a population dependent on agriculture, by mainstreaming the nutrition dimension in...

R V Bhavani, Rohit Prasar,,Sangeetha Rajeesh
LANSA examined the effectiveness of interventions along agri-food value chains beyond the farm gate for consumption of nutrtious food by vulnerable populations on a sustained basis. 

R V Bhavani, Priva Rampal,Sangeetha Rajeesh
Agriculture policies primarily address production, productivity and farmers’ welfare. However, policy and investment choices on crops / livestock, also region, institutions and infrastructure...

Nitya Rao, S. Raju
Some of the key pathways linking agriculture and nutrition run through women’s work, yet the evidence on these links are weak. Using time-use data from two Indian districts, this paper seeks to fill...

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