Journal Papers
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...

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...

Giacomo Zanello, Bhavani Shankar , Nigel Poole
Increasing on-farm production diversity and improving markets are recognized as ways to improve the dietary diversity of smallholders. Using instrumental variable methods to account for endogeneity,...

Mehroosh Tak, Bhavani Shankar, Suneetha Kadiyala
Rapid economic growth, urbanization, and globalization have resulted in dietary transformation in India. Triple burden of malnutrition remains a significant concern, with high pre- valence of...

Shweta Khandelwal, Garima Vermaa , Nida I. Shaikh, Karen R. Siegel,Divya Sonia , Deepa Sonia , Anne-Marie Thowe
Multiple forms of malnutrition (MOM) are a public health concern that requires strong and collaborative policy action. One common thread across MOM is inadequate consumption of fruits and vegetables...

Aliza Pradhan Akshaya Kumar Panda R. V. Bhavani
The challenge to food production posed by climate aberrations has been seeing increased attention to reviving millet-based farming systems. Millets are climate-resilient and nutritionally equivalent...

Amit Mitra,Nitya Rao
Despite the global recognition of women’s central role in the provision, management, and utilisation of water for production and domestic use, and despite the close links between production...

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