Tag Search: “nutrition”
The state of Adivasi livelihoods after 75 years of planned development
Despite efforts to ensure their wellbeing, the Adivasi community remains one of the most deprived in India. In this post, Chaudhuri and Ghosh discuss the findings of a study surveying the livelihood s...
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Dibyendu Chaudhuri
Parijat Ghosh
15 February, 2023
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Economic development, the nutrition trap, and metabolic disease
Two recently documented facts run counter to the conventional wisdom that economic development leads to better health: the absence of a clear link between income and nutritional status in developing c...
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Nancy Luke
Kaivan Munshi
Anu Mary Oommen
Swapnil Singh
10 January, 2022
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Food insecurity and child malnutrition: New empirical evidence from India
Child malnutrition is among the most pressing public health issues in India today. Equally alarming is the country’s food security crisis. Analysing ‘Young Lives Survey’ data from the states of Andhra...
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Gaurav Dhamija
Manini Ojha
Punarjit Roychowdhury
06 January, 2022
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Covid-19 and mental health: Large-scale phone survey in six Indian states
The Covid-19 pandemic brought with it the dual crises of public health and the economy, particularly in low-income settings with limited formal safety nets. Based on a large-scale phone survey conduct...
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Natalie Bau
Gaurav Khanna
Corinne Low
Manisha Shah
Sreyashi Sharmin
Alessandra Voena
20 September, 2021
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Covid-19 and growing food insecurity: Insights from rural Bihar
Emerging research shows that Covid-19 has had a devastating impact on the already undernourished and marginalised populations, by affecting their access to food and nutrition, and consumption patterns...
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Swati Dutta
Aditi Madan
Sunil Kumar Mishra
25 August, 2021
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The power of school feeding programmes to improve nutrition
India has the world’s highest number of undernourished children and the largest school-feeding programme – the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme – but limited evidence is available on the intergenerational im...
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Harold Alderman
Suman Chakrabarti
Daniel Gilligan
Purnima Menon
Samuel Scott
04 August, 2021
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Covid-19: Does obesity play a role?
Overnutrition is a major public health issue in India. Being overweight or obese has been linked to the development of health conditions that make individuals more susceptible to severe illness due to...
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Archana Dang
Indrani Gupta
28 June, 2021
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The Covid-19 crisis and food security
India’s national lockdown in 2020, imposed to contain the spread of Covid-19, threw millions of people out of work and sharply reduced earnings for those who remained employed. Based on data from mult...
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Jean Drèze
Anmol Somanchi
21 June, 2021
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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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