Agri-food systems transformation requires accelerated innovations to address multiple economic, environmental and health objectives. No innovation serves everyone’s interests. Political opposition to innovations is therefore inevitable.
How were the governments of three middle-income countries with high levels of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)—India, Mexico, and South Africa—able to implement sugar-sweetened beverage taxes (SSBs) despite intense opposition from powerful corpora
Background: Tracking dietary changes can inform strategies to improve nutrition, yet there is limited evidence on food consumption patterns and how disparities in food and nutrient intakes have changed in Bangladesh.
Background: To address gaps in coverage and quality of nutrition services, Alive & Thrive (A&T) strengthened the delivery of maternal nutrition interventions through government antenatal care (ANC) services in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Background: In response to the high levels of maternal nutrition in Uttar Pradesh, Alive & Thrive (A&T) aimed to strengthen the delivery of nutrition interventions through the government antenatal care platform, including leveraging ongoin
Background: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic may substantially affect health systems, but little primary evidence is available on disruption of health and nutrition services.
Background: Maternal nutrition interventions are inadequately integrated into antenatal care (ANC).
Refugee sites throughout the world are loci of economic activity, including small enterprises, but limited information exists on these.
Exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) can have profound adverse consequences on maternal and child health.
Uttar Pradesh (UP) is the most populous state with the highest burden of undernutrition in India.
The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) has been used to estimate the impact of scaling up intervention coverage on undernutrition and mortality.
This chapter re-examines Asia’s agricultural and rural transformations in the context of economy-wide structural change.
Interaction within mothers’ social networks can theoretically diffuse messages from interventions and campaigns into norms and practices for infant and young child feeding (IYCF).
Despite strong policy and program commitment, essential maternal nutrition services are not reaching enough women in many countries.
Adolescent wellbeing is now recognized as critical to breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty and malnutrition.
Most research on stunting in India ignores the role of diets, including the unusually high prevalence of lacto-vegetarianism (LVG).
Adolescent pregnancy is a global public health concern and one in five adolescents live in India, where early marriage is widely practiced.
In the context of large-scale interventions to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, we examined differences in characteristics of those exposed and not exposed to interventions; exposure to interpersonal communication (IPC), in
We examined trends and inequities in the double burden of malnutrition among girls, boys, women and men by residence and wealth between 2006 and 2016 in India where 590 million individuals are expected to live in cities by 2030.