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Exploring the agriculture-nutrition disconnect in India:

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  • Gillespie, Stuart
  • Kadiyala, Suneetha

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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. At the same time, India is the second-fastest-growing economy in the world. Its economic growth, however, has been far less “pro-poor†than growth in other Asian countries such as China, Thailand, and Vietnam, where major strides to reduce child undernutrition have been made during similar periods of economic growth. Why has such progress somehow eluded India? What lies beneath the apparent paradox of simultaneous nutritional stagnation and sustained economic growth in India?

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  • Gillespie, Stuart & Kadiyala, Suneetha, 2011. "Exploring the agriculture-nutrition disconnect in India:," 2020 conference briefs 20, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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    1. Carly Nichols, 2017. "Millets, milk and maggi: contested processes of the nutrition transition in rural India," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 34(4), pages 871-885, December.
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    5. Andaleeb Rahman & Sumit Mishra, 2020. "Does Non-farm Income Affect Food Security? Evidence from India," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(6), pages 1190-1209, June.
    6. Srijit Mishra, 2011. "Consultation Report on Strengthening the Role of Agriculture for a Nutrition Secure India," Working Papers id:4667, eSocialSciences.
    7. Ulimwengu, John & Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda & Randriamamonjy, Josee & Ramadan, Racha, 2011. "Understanding the linkage between agricultural productivity and nutrient consumption: Evidence from Uganda," IFPRI discussion papers 1128, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    8. Andersen-Pinstrup, Per, 2013. "Contemporary food policy challenges and opportunities," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 58(4), October.

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