Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is reflected across policy priorities at global and national levels. Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) seeks to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.
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Feeding India’s babies: Insights on trends and patterns from the National Family Health Surveys, 2015-16 to 2019-21
Early life nutrition sets the stage for the health, nutrition, and development of young children.
Adolescents’ health and wellbeing: Trends and insights from the National Family Health Surveys, 2006, 2016, and 2021
South Asia is home to more adolescents than any global region, and one in five adolescents globally live in India.
Impact of information on demand for safe food
Problems caused by eating unsafe food are a major health issue in many countries. Contamination by bacteria or toxins can cause these health risks, particularly for young children whose bodies are still developing.
This study addresses the policy-relevant question of how, in the face of major economic shocks, social protection interventions can more effectively mitigate undernutrition.
Coverage of nutrition and health Interventions in INDIA: Insights from the National Family Health Surveys
Nutrition-specific interventions are aimed at improving the food, health, and care environment for women and children during the first 1000 days.
This Data Note provides an update on the prevalence of anemia and its determinants in India at state and districts levels, as well as coverage of a nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions.
A set of global nutrition targets for maternal and child nutrition together with diet related non communicable diseases ( to be achieved by 2025 was endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2013 These targets provide goals against which progress t
BACKGROUND| Healthy diets are necessary for optimal growth and to carry out daily mental and physical tasks.
In 2005, India passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA, “the Act”), a law guaranteeing all rural households 100 days of work at a minimum wage through the building of durable assets, which created one of the largest anti-poverty
Biodiversity and resilience interventions: Analysis of interviews with farmers in the United States
This note summarizes the results of in-person interviews with 16 US farmers in Iowa and Illinois to identi-fy the motivations and challenges that impact farmers’ adoption of practices that improve biodiversity.
Biodiversity and resilience interventions: Analysis of interviews with farmers in Brazil
This note summarizes the results of interviews with 16 farmers in Brazil to identify the motivations and challenges that impact farmers’ adoption of practices that improve biodiversity.
Biodiversity and resilience interventions: Analysis of interviews with farmers in France
This note summarizes the results of interviews with 17 farmers in France to identify the motivations and challenges that impact farmers’ adoption of practices that improve biodiversity.
Biodiversity and resilience interventions: Analysis of interviews with farmers in Germany
This note summarizes the results of interviews with 18 farmers in Germany to identify the motivations and challenges that impact farmers’ adoption of practices that improve biodiversity. All interviews were conducted either by phone or on Zoom.
Farming is an inherently high-risk activity, and farmers’ livelihoods depend on a set of interlinked environmental factors including weather, soil conditions, disease, pests, and more.
While agricultural value chains are rapidly evolving (Reardon, 2015; Reardon et al., 2021; Barrett et al., 2022), research attention has increasingly taken notice of the important role played by actors in the ag ricultural midstream.
State nutrition profile: Sikkim
This Data Note describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions.
State nutrition profile: Telangana
This Data Note describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions.
State nutrition profile: Puducherry
This Data Note describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions.
State nutrition profile: Mizoram
This Data Note describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions.