Much of the world’s chronically poor and malnourished population lives in an increasingly volatile world.
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Resilience: A primer
Recurrent humanitarian crises have led many development actors to begin thinking differently about development issues.
India is home to one-third of the world’s undernourished children, with rates of child undernutrition remaining stubbornly high for decades. Undernutrition is widespread among adults, too; one-third of all Indian men and women are affected.
Improving the livelihoods and well-being of the rural poor is an important aim of agricultural development, promoted through agricultural intensification and commercialization strategies.
As a unified set of global poverty reduction goals, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in principle provide an opportunity for overcoming sectoral divides and forging effective links between agriculture and health.
Strengthening the policy and programmatic links between agriculture and health and nutrition requires a means of seeing how their myriad links fit together.
Value-chain approaches are already used as development strategies to enhance the livelihoods of food producers, but they have, to date, rarely been used explicitly as a tool to achieve nutritional goals, and they have not been sensitive to nutriti