Baseline status assessment under the study Farming System for Nutrition (FSN) study in selected villages in Wardha district, Maharashtra and Koraput district, Odisha, revealed that the diets of the people is predominantly cereal-based. Wheat is the staple food in Wardha and rice in Koraput. There is low dietary diversity at both household and individual levels. In Koraput, it was found that though there is relatively higher vegetable production, it is largely sold in the market...
Need for Nutrition Awareness: Transferring Food from Field to Plate
Author : Nithya D J and Bhavani R VPublished Date : Friday, August 12, 2016
Development of Farming System for Nutrition intervention (FSNi) at crop level
Author : Vijaya Bhaskar and Bhavani R VPublished Date : Thursday, August 11, 2016
In the face of changing climate, rural agricultural sector is under heightened pressure not only to increase food output, but also to address undernutrition. The FSNi approach (as elsewhere) intends to improve nutritional outcomes and dietary diversity in a rural population through agricultural production- for consumption (direct) or -for sale (indirect). FSNi was designed to include number of agricultural curatives (e.g. improved seeds, soil technology, bio-fortification, backyard gardening)...
My choice or not?
Author : Sidra MazharPublished Date : Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Agricultural practices and interventions affects nutrition of women, children and the entire household through various pathways and it is interesting to note that women empowerment, though much neglected, has a significant role to play when it comes to improving nutrition. To understand this link, I decided to attend the webinar “Women’s nutrition through an empowerment lens” organized by Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) and...
Patriarchy and women’s work in Pakistan
Author : Hussain Bux MallahPublished Date : Thursday, May 19, 2016
Who knew that simply changing the key respondents of a survey would completely transform the process? In over a decade of field work experience, I have developed a set of best practices for myself and our team to be able to conduct a survey of almost any nature. Little did I know that my experience was limited to only a half of the population. Designing the survey for LANSA which centered on women as key respondents had some extremely unexpected and interesting implications.In our experience it...
