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: 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).
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.
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.
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.
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) are important national strategies to improve maternal and child health and nutrition.
In low- and middle-income countries, non-communicable disease (NCD) prevalence is increasing while undernutrition persists, resulting in a double-burden of malnutrition.
India accounts for a third of the global population of stunted preschoolers. However, very few studies have documented the timing of growth faltering in India, its evolution over time, or its variation over India's diverse regions.
Low BMI among women and girls has implications for their health and that of the next generation. Yet, little is known about the determinants of low BMI despite the known high burden of undernutrition in India.
The mental wellbeing of mothers with young children has been shown to positively affect child development.
India rolled out ambitious program efforts for health and nutrition (H&N) in 2005–06, scaling up community H&N services through the National Rural Health Mission and the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS).