The problem: In India, maternal nutrition is a prime concern when it comes to achieving the National Nutrition Mission’s (or POSHAN Abhiyaan) targets of bringing down stunting from 38.4 percent to 25 percent by 2022, reducing under-nutrition and low birth weight by 2 percent, and anaemia by 3 percent per annum. Most Indian women […]
Agricultural Mechanization in South Asia
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) organized a two day, Regional Dialogue on Agricultural Mechanization in South Asia on July 20-21, 2017 in New Delhi, India.
Trends in Nutrition Outcomes, Determinants, and Interventions in India (2006–2016)
Nutrition is central to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda, and at least 12 of the 17 SDGs include indicators relevant for nutrition. In addition, the World Health Assembly unanimously endorsed 6 ambitious maternal, infant, and young child nutrition targets and several noncommunicable disease-related targets to be achieved by 2025. These global targets are […]
Call for Applications: 2018 Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights Visiting Professionals Program
The Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for our Women’s Land Rights Visiting Professionals Program. The program goals are to 1) Enhance effectiveness and expertise of mid-career practitioners from Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa to advance women’s land rights and 2) Strengthen the network of women’s […]
Featured Resources: Week of June 5
During the African Development Bank’s annual meetings in May, the importance of investing in nutrition to promote Africa’s “grey matter infrastructure” was highlighted as a game-changer in the continent’s development agenda.
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