In the Indian family setting, women play a crucial role in the overall development of the households. Hence, development agencies and government programs mainly target women, assuming that empowering women would improve families.
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Exploring micronutrient deficiency risks in Africa using projections of the food system
Micronutrient deficiencies (MND) remain an important challenge in the 21st century, complicated by climate, economic, and demographic change.
Rural Bangladeshi consumers’ willingness to pay for rice with improved nutrition via zinc biofortified rice and decreased milling practices
Zinc deficiency is a severe public health issue in Bangladesh.
Polygynous family structure and child undernutrition in Africa: Empirical evidence from Nigeria
A growing interest is emerging in the literature to explore how child nutrition is affected by sociocultural practices, such as polygyny.
Do grassroots interventions relax behavioral constraints to the adoption of nutrition-sensitive food production systems?
In many developing countries, agricultural policies and programs are often designed in a way to promote productivity growth with modern inputs and technologies, and with limited reference to the nutrition gains that gain be made through production
Effect of conflict and food price shocks on calorie intake and acute malnutrition in Nigeria: A micro-panel data analysis
Food insecurity and malnutrition are being worsened in countries that are exposed to armed conflict. Nigeria has witnessed a decade of protracted armed conflict and civil unrest.
Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic
Food system transformation in Mozambique: An assessment of changing diet quality in the context of a rising middle class
Robust income growth combined with the highest urban population growth in the world is driving very rapid changes in the food system of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Malnutrition is one of the biggest public health challenges of the century with about 2 billion people affected by it globally.
Measuring infant and young child complementary feeding practices
The health co-benefits of a global greenhouse-gas tax on food
Interpreting the shared socio-economic pathways under climate change for the ECOWAS region through a stakeholder and multi-model process
In this paper, we present four globally-consistent regional scenarios on Western Africa’s development that have been used to test and develop a range of national and regional policies.
Plant different, eat different?
Children’s diets, nutrition knowledge and access to markets
Iron Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Peru
Agricultural production and children’s diets
Understanding resilience for food and nutrition security
This paper provides a structured overview of the concept of resilience for use in discussions surrounding food security and nutrition.