Tag Search: “nutrition”
Information provision and food safety: A field study in urban India
While street food accounts for a significant proportion of the daily food consumption of millions of people, the reliability and safety of these food supply chains remain a key public health concern. ...
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Gianmarco Daniele
Sulagna Mookerjee
Denni Tommasi
24 May, 2021
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Addressing the nutrition crisis: Reflections from Odisha Millets Mission
The state of Odisha has a severe malnutrition problem, and evidence shows that increasing risks of climate change will render the resource-intensive, rice-wheat cropping system unsustainable. In this ...
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Subhodeep Basu
Arghadeep Saha
Sayantani Sathpathi
09 April, 2021
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In-kind transfers as insurance
Academics and policymakers worldwide are leading the push towards unconditional cash as the preferred mode of transfer from the government to the poor. Yet surveys across countries find that large pro...
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Lucie Gadenne
Sam Norris
Monica Singhal
Sandip Sukhtankar
01 March, 2021
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Rising obesity in rural India, under the growing urban shadow
According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), 2015-16, nearly 20% of India’s population is obese. This article shows that the country’s obesity trends have followed the nature of its economic...
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Anaka Aiyar
Prabhu Pingali
Andaleeb Rahman
12 January, 2021
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Need for 10-year, state-wise procurement plan for rice and wheat
Against the backdrop of the ongoing debate around India’s new farm legislations, Hussain and Mohapatra make a case for having a 10-year plan indicating the targetted procurement of rice and wheat from...
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Siraj Hussain
Jugal Mohapatra
08 December, 2020
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A review of the coverage of PDS
The coverage of the Public Distribution System (PDS) has been of wide interest due to the pandemic and lockdown. Based on government data sources, Khera and Somanchi estimate the state-wise coverage o...
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Reetika Khera
Anmol Somanchi
19 August, 2020
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How birth weight affects test scores during mid-childhood years
Besides lack of schooling resources, a possible reason why children grapple with low learning outcomes may be poor health at birth. Analysing data from Andhra Pradesh, this article finds that a 10% i...
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Santosh Kumar
Utkarsh Singh
18 August, 2020
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India’s battle against Covid-19: A comparative perspective
It has been suggested that, India could selectively relax the lockdown that has been imposed on it, given its favourable demographic profile. In this post, Ghosh and Pal argue that having a younger po...
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Sugata Ghosh
Sarmistha Pal
16 April, 2020
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Covid-19: Are we ready for the long haul? - Part II
In Part I of this piece, the authors made broad recommendations to guide the government’s response to Covid-19 in India. In this part, they identify five salient population groups that are particularl...
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Abhinash Borah
Sabyasachi Das
Aparajita Dasgupta
Ashwini Deshpande
Kanika Mahajan
Bharat Ramaswami
Anuradha Saha
Anisha Sharma
03 April, 2020
- Perspectives
Human development in India’s Economic Survey 2019-20
Measuring changes in human development can help us understand how the economy, and well-being of a country, is changing. The chapter on human development in this year’s Economic Survey emphasises the ...
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Diane Coffey
Dean Spears
21 February, 2020
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National Nutrition Mission: Will it harmonise with India’s health and nutrition agenda?
India is home to 31% of all stunted children and half of all wasted children across the globe. Lately it took a major step in the direction of holistically addressing the mammoth multidimensional prob...
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Shweta Khandelwal
02 January, 2019
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Can double-fortified salt in school mid-day meals help reduce anaemia?
Micronutrient malnutrition is a major risk factor for more than half of the daily under-five deaths in India. It leads to iron-deficiency anaemia, which especially affects pregnant women, and young an...
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Marion Kraemer
Santosh Kumar
Abhijeet Kumar
Sebastian Vollmer
27 June, 2018
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