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Gender differences in awareness and adoption of climate-smart agriculture practices in Bangladesh
This paper analyzes gender differences in awareness and adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices using data from a survey administered to men and women within the same households in southwestern Bangladesh.
Big data in agriculture and nutrition
The food system community sees a huge potential for big data in agriculture to lift farmers out of poverty (Patel, 2013), and ensure that parents can feed their children nutritious, diverse foods (Lung’aho, 2018).
This chapter discusses the role of women in agriculture, and the ways in which their status affects the health and nutrition of their households.
This chapter summarizes key findings from recent reviews of evidence of the nutritional impacts of agricultural programs.
This chapter examines the headway that has been made in Malawi in bringing the agriculture sector on board as a partner in addressing malnutrition multisectorally, and the factors that are driving progress.
In this chapter, we make the case for India to shift to a nutrition-focused agricultural sector that goes beyond staple grain productivity to emphasize the production and consumption of micronutrient-rich foods.
This chapter focuses on how building and strengthening capacity at the individual and institutional levels can in turn strengthen agriculture– nutrition linkages. It focuses on two specific aspects of capacity.
This chapter outlines some of the actions that businesses can take to improve nutrition outcomes and what governments and civil society can do to incentivize them to do so.
Throughout most of the 20th century, the main focus of agricultural efforts was addressing food shortages by increasing production.
Nutritional ecology: Understanding the intersection of climate/environmental change, food systems and health
The global imperative is complex: to support stable, healthy dietary patterns that are environmentally friendly (particularly regarding GHGE) and are acceptable across a range of culturally diverse settings.
This chapter describes three main channels through which changing agriculture can affect nutrition: • the level and stability of real income and purchasing power among poor people; • the relative cost and difficulty of acquiring more nutritious fo
Safety nets for agriculture and nutrition
This chapter presents selected evidence on the impact of safety nets on agriculture and nutrition separately, examines trends in the development of more integrated programs, and outlines key areas of potential and challenges to better harnessing s
This chapter characterizes the biodiversity on the planet and stresses the importance of biodiversity for agriculture.
This chapter first reviews the relationship between governance systems and processes (at various levels) and the nutrition sensitivity of agri-food systems, before reviewing the role of leadership in orienting such systems toward nutrition goals.
Reshaping agriculture to reduce obesity
This chapter provides an overview of the global burden of the growing obesity epidemic and reviews regional trends in macronutrient availability.
This chapter begins with a discussion of Ethiopia’s various nutrition-related indicators, which show the persistence of child and adult malnutrition, despite some progress.
The way forward for nutrition-driven agriculture
This volume has highlighted the important links between agriculture and nutrition, both direct and indirect, both theoretical and practical.
Agriculture and nutrition in China
This chapter discusses the linkages between agriculture, food, and nutrition in China.
Improving nutrition through biofortification
There is much unfinished business in scaling up and mainstreaming biofortification.