Related News Releases: India

Millennium Post published an article stating that in face of high food insecurity with COVID-19 resurging, many across India are cutting back on critical food items.

Youth Kiawaaz (YKA) (India) published an article on child marriage and very young women having children. Shivanim a seventeen-year-old, desiring to remain in school, but the social stigma of being unmarried and the constant pressure from family members, neighbors and acquaintances is strong.

India Express announced an important live interview with research fellow Sudha Narayanan.

Financial Express (India) published an op-ed by research analyst Ruchira Boss, senior research fellow Devesh Roy, senior research analyst 

The Statesman (India) published an article on malnutrition and its long-term effects. Malnutrition has an irreversible effect on health and human development.

Indian Express published an article stating that small farmers face several challenges in getting access to inputs and marketing facilities.

Business News This Week (India) published an article that announced that RAHI has launched projects aimed at eradication of malnutrition through farm-based micro-projects in hunger hotspots of India, as part of its SAMBAL initiative launched on World Food Day 2020.  The projects shall work exclusively with women fa

Times of India reported on a discussion at the International Growth Centre (IGC) and Asian Development Research Institute on Strengthening social protection. Noted economist Jean Drèze on Monday said undermining of child budget and ongoing economic crisis may have resulted in declining child nutrition. The panel was moderated by Priya Nanda from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

India Spend published an article writing that stunting among children aged below five has increased in four northeastern Indian states, a trend not observed in the region over the last 15 years, according to the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey, 2019-20, released in December 2020.