The overall goal of the three-year CAN program (2016–2019) was “Reducing malnutrition among children and women by facilitating efficient implementation of food and nutrition programmes, ensuring transparency, downward accountability and community
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Despite encouraging progress on nutrition outcomes in the last decade, malnutrition continues to be a major challenge in India.
IFPRI in Asia
Highlights of IFPRI’s current cutting-edge, policy-relevant research in Central, East, South, and Southeast Asia are featured in this brochure.
IFPRI’S PARTNERSHIP WITH INDIA BEGAN MORE THAN 40 YEARS AGO, IN THE WAKE OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION. Over the last four decades, IFPRI’s research in India has addressed the most pressing issues of the times.
Achieving food and nutrition security is a complex challenge. This is especially true in South Asia, where 40 percent of the world’s poor—who survive on less than US$1.25 a day—live and 21 percent of the population is undernourished.
Micronutrient deficiency affects approximately 2 billion people globally and is caused by poor-quality diets resulting in low intakes of key micronutrients.
India food security portal
The India Food Security Portal presents current information about agriculture, food security, and nutrition in India and about dynamic developments in the region’s food system.
The report’s ultimate goal is to deepen and focus the policy dialogue in India, raise awareness about the multisectoral nature of undernutrition, highlight areas for action, especially at the state-level, and lead to actions that can accelerate im
Key collaborations between IFPRI and its Indian partners, describing recent and ongoing work.
This 2013 Global Food Policy Report is the third in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events.
In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production, but also on the policies that affect food systems from farm t
India State Hunger Index
The results of the India State Hunger Index 2008 highlight the continued overall severity of the hunger situation in India, while revealing the variation in hunger across states within India.